Describes how to use databases in Visual FoxPro to establish relationships between tables, enforce referential integrity, and manage local and remote data.

Introduces creating and working with tables.

Provides an overview about how to enforce business rules by using validation rules, preventing duplicate values in fields, and maintaining relationships between tables.

Describes how to use queries to select and display data from tables or views.

Explains how to use views to create a customized updatable data set for your application.

Explains how information is copied between Visual FoxPro and other applications by importing to and exporting from Visual FoxPro.

Discusses building and upsizing a local prototype of your application using Visual FoxPro tables, views, and databases to represent data accessed on a remote server.

Explains how programming for shared access makes it possible for you to create an application that will run on several machines in a network environment.

Describes the Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider and how to access Visual FoxPro data from other languages and applications.

Includes Visual FoxPro general, programming language, user interface, and error message reference topics.

Includes conceptual information about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.

Stresses that careful planning saves time, effort, and money and that many of the decisions you make during the planning phase will impact how you create elements of the application.

Describes how you can use SQL pass-through (SPT) technology to create objects on the server, run stored procedures on a remote server, and execute commands using native server syntax.