Thanks again Sergey. Just noticed your new address. Did you move or are you also in hiding?

>Rich,
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>VFP ODBC driver does not support empty dates in or out. Set empty date to 12/30/1899 instead (mskb #168837). In any other RDMS you would use NULL as they do not support empty dates either.
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>>We're using a remote connection to a VFP database. When doing an INSERT with an empty date field I get a data mis-match error.

>>? SQLPREPARE(myHandle, "insert into xyz (effect_dt) values (?m.datevar )")---> 1
>>m.datevar=DATE()
>>? SQLEXEC(myHandle) ----> 1
>>m.datevar={}
>>? SQLEXEC(myHandle) ----> -1
>>=AERROR(laError)
>>? laError[2] ----> "Connectivity error: [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]Data type mismatch"

>>A straight SQL Insert

>>INSERT INTO xyz (effect_dt) VALUES ( {} )

works just fine.
>>