>I talked about this to our DBA, and he says it's because I don't "own the
>table". He also says that I'm "never going to own the table" so I should
>"forget about using Visual FoxPro."
>The tables we are tying to access are read only data dumps from our mainframe.
>I'd like to show off VFPs prowess as a front end to our data warehouse, but I'm
>just not getting very far with the DBA. Any Suggestions?

Yes, but most of them are violently obscene. :-)

It should be irrelevant who owns the table: do you have SQL*Net installed and configured correctly for the ODBC connection? Are you using MS's Oracle driver, rather than Oracle's?