>I understand the not being fixed part been doing VFP exclusively since 2004.
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>I don't understand the was working now is not part and is fine in production part, as well as the command prompt part. Command prompt part =s the following steps
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>1) Start a VFP session
>2) run the app see the problem in Debug using browse immediately after the cursor is returned.
>3) kill the debugging process (remain in same vfp session)
>4) at the command prompt run a prg that creates a SQL Server Connection exactly as the application does
>5) run the SQL Select with success.
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>Its all happening on 2003 servers with SQL 2003 NOT 2005.
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>Not so sure your response on this bug fits here. Thanks though good to know

There's no such thing as MS SQL Server 2003. See http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/sql/microsoft-sql-server/retrieving-sql-server-edition-version-and-service-pack-info