Thank you for confirming it. The customer seems to think that by creating this system DSN he made it all work. I am not going to argue with him; as long as I understand how it works.
>It does not matter, which is why it's called "DSN-less".
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>>Please help me understand or confirm my understanding on how the following works.
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>>If my VFP 9 application connects to the SQL Server via DSN-less ODBC connection, does it matter that the computer/server has System DSN created? My understand was that the application would have to use this DSN file; otherwise (I think) it does not matter for DSN-less connection of DSN has been created or not.
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