>>>Hi,
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>>>I am preparing for a meeting with a potential customer for a VFP/SQL Server 2008 application. I need to sound like I know what I am talking about <g>. I am sure one of the question they will ask is what driver(s) will be necessary to install on each client PC to use the VFP 9 application with SQL Server 2008. I have read various message where some suggest to use ADO, some SQL Server Native Client 10, or ODBC. What is the best or most efficient/recommended?
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>>>TIA.
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>>If you install Native client it comes with both OLEDB and ODBC drivers.
>>With VFP use ADO if you use the newly added data type fields - n/varchar(max), date, time etc.
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>First, thank you, Borislav. Is Native Client something you can download from the web or does it come with SQL Server 2008? Also, I am confused a little; if I install Native Client which comes with OleDb and ODBC but I need to use ADO with VFP, why do I need Native Client? (I am sure this is a very newbie question, but I need to understand. Thanks).


You could download The SQL Server Native Client freely from MS site.
About ADO.
You should use ADO because the ODBC functions in VFP didn't understand the new types.