>Sergey,
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>When I dropped the CA class into my DE class, I modified the SelectCmd to include a Where clause.
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>The weird thing is, even if I use the Nodata = .T. option, it still freezes up.
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>Is changing the structure to Varchar really imperative?
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>Thanks
>Dennis

Not really. But desirable, as your tables will occupy less space.

If you change selectCmd when you put this class in DE, add where 1=0 just in case to the CA itself. 1=0 prevents records being brought up. In addition, as I suggested, explicitly list all fields in the SelectCmd, don't use select *