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Nelson,

You may want to search the archives, but there was a discussion a while ago
about the pros and cons.

IIRC, the pros had to do with referential integrity, cascading deletes.  The
cons focused on lack of REFFLD but there was a workable solution posted.

"Smith, Nelson" wrote:
>
> Have you (or anyone else you know about) written up the pros, cons,
> pitfalls, tips, etc of making this move?  I've been toying with the idea
> myself, but I'm not sure if it is worth the effort on legacy files.


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