>I may have been barking up the wrong tree. I converted the VFP memvar to type DateTime and still get the same error. (Which, again, does not occur in the VFP 6 version of the app running against the same SQL Server database). Here is the relevant info. Ndxfl1 is a remote view against a table by that name in the database. The remote view is populated correctly. The DateTime field is d_ate.
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>The command:
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>select d_ate=max(d_ate)
> from ndxfl1
> where ir_table=?nirfile
> and ir_type=?nir_type
> and d_ate<=?m.mdbegdb2
>
>The values, as captured in the debugger at the point of error:
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>Nirfile = 1.00000000
>Nir_type = 1.00000000
>m.mdbegdb2 = {12/31/1899}
>
>The error message returned by SQL Server:
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>Connectivity error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'd_ate'.

I'm confused. If remote view is populated correctly, where error message comes from?