>Hi Cetin
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>>Seeing ppl suggesting ways like this I wonder if FB doesn't support usual parameter passing? ie:
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>No Firebird is a beautiful thing. I had faced a similar problem to as Kerwam, so to get things working as of deadline I had gone this long way <g>. My advise give FireBird a try you won't regret it VFP and FB seems like they are cousins, if not real brothers/sisters <g>.
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>It will handle the following and more
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>myDate = {^2005/1/1}
>?sqlexec(nHandle,'INSERT INTO X (date) values ?m.myDate')>

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>Seems the bracket in my try was not required around ?m.myDate
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>>PS: RETURN "'" + TRANSFORM(dtoc(m.tdDate,1), "@R 9999/99/99") + "'"
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>Thanks for the correction to the function.

Sorry, I sound to be forcing ppl to use ?m.Var style:) But my only concern is not the formatting. ?m.myVar style could be prepared and executed in a loop where formatted syntax needs to be as is per call (besides handling of formats between VFP and backend). ie:

SQLPrepare(m.lnHandle,'INSERT INTO X (date) values ?m.myDate')
for ix=1 to 10
 m.myDate = date()+m.ix
 SQLExec(m.lnHandle)
endfor

So backend needs to compile command once.
Cetin