Just a note that if you SET ANSI ON, SELECT * From MyTable WHERE MyField>'', will work just fine.
We have a lot of queries where I work that access both SQL Server and VFP data.

-mike


>So far, when having the need to get all records where a specific field is not empty, I was using something like this:
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>SELECT * From MyTable WHERE LEN(ALLTRIM(MyField))>0
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>But, I need to adjust that SQL so it would fit for either VFP or SQL Server. So, I thought about something like this:
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>SELECT * From MyTable WHERE MyField>""
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>SELECT * From MyTable WHERE MyField>" "
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>But, to my surprise, only the 2nd one works. The first one doesn't return any record. Isn't the first suppose to be the same as the second one?