When VFP operates in one codepage (1250 in this case) and the SQL server has fields defined in SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS... some binary fields get screwed along the way.

Is there a way to avoid the conversion which happens when a value is passed via a SPT call? The value stored serverside is converted, which in case of non-Western values (which exist, nevertheless) means the data is screwed up.

So far the only way I've found is to make the field binary on SQL side, which isn't easy to do, it takes a script like this:

EXEC sys.sp_unbindefault N'[dbo].[myTable].[myField]'
alter table myTable add myField2 [binary](20) null
update myTable set myField2=convert(binary(20), myField) where 1=1
alter table myTable drop column myField
alter table myTable add myField [binary](20) null
update myTable set myField=myField2 where 1=1
alter table myTable drop column myField2
EXEC sp_bindefault N'[dbo].[Dflt_EmptyString]', N'[myTable].[myField]'

That's eight lines per field... ugly. Any way to set something VFP side, or in the connectstring, to tell ODBC to ignore codepages and just shut up about conversions?