>Hi Don,
>
>seems NULL is contrary to the documentation completely ignored in the connection string. The following code works for me:
>

>	Sub Main()
>		Dim SQL As String = "SELECT SET('NULL') from Customers"
>		Dim oConn As New OleDbConnection("Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\Samples\Northwind\northwind.dbc")
>		Dim oCommand As New OleDbCommand(SQL, oConn)
>		Dim oSetCommand As New OleDbCommand("SET NULL OFF", oConn)
>		oConn.Open()
>		oSetCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
>		Console.WriteLine(oCommand.ExecuteScalar)
>		Console.ReadKey()
>		oConn.Close()
>	End Sub
>

Thanks Chris. It looks like this is going to work. I hadn't thought of sending setup commands ahead of the principle command. One thought I was puzzeling over was if I could put something in a config file to setup the environment. Do you know if that would work when accessed from the web?