> If we are creating a new Database, is there any preferred
> choice between Dialect 1 and 3. We are happy not to have spaces
> and capitalised field names (e.g. field names in Dialect 1 are
> fine.) Is there any other reason to choose Dialect 1 or 3,
> e.g. any performance differences?

MHO - choose dialect 3, so that you can implement Dialect 3 features
in the future without conversion problems - such as keyword
differences and maths changes (int64 support). Also this way your
data types can explicitly state the date/time/timestamp requirement of
a field.

I doubt if there is much in the way of performance difference either
way.

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing