>>>Since I'm the DBA, that won't happen, but good suggestion. :-) I'm looking at the VFP help... how does one check the connection to see if it is still valid?
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>>In times past, the only way to do it was to send a simple select (like SELECT 1+1) to the server and trap the error if it occurs. I have code for a custom class that handles this on my ancient whitepaper on the EPS site (
http://www.eps-cs.com/pdf/whitepaper_migrating.pdf).
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>>I don't recall if VFP 9 has a PEM to do this or not, and unfortunately I don't have it loaded here at the office.
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>Thanks.
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>Could I link to that URL from here?
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPSQL-TSQL-MappingNo problemo.
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