I wound up going to SQL Server by "upgrading" from MS Access. After our MS Access application grew beyond a certain size (I forgot what that size was, but it was MS Access '95), people at my company noticed that its performance was seriously degrading. So, I was tasked with finding something that we could upgrade it to...I found that MSSQL server 6.0 would be fairly easy to migrate the Access tables into, and that the Access front-end would play well with it (which meant I wouldn't have to re-write the application). So we upgraded. I then moved on to becoming a SQL Server DBA and (now) a developer because I was having so much fun "playing" with SQL. 😎 MSSQL server has certainly "grown up" over the years.