>I need to establish a connection to SQL 2008 R2 in VFP from the command window .,..
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>Could you refresh my memory on getting a connection in VFP to a system or file dsn from the command window?
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>I have a system dsn ITF that uses a trusted connection (perhaps VFP is not seen as such?) (SQL Server Native Client 10.0)
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>nConnectionHandle = SQLCONNECT('ITF') gets a -1
>I created a file DSN and put in in my VFP path ITFDSN but nConnectionHandle = SQLCONNECT('ITFDSN') gets a -1 as well
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>Am I doing something boneheaded or does this stuff not allow trusted connection or ...
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>TIA

What is the error?
When you use any of SQL=* function you ALWAYS should check what the function returns and if it returns -1 check the error with AERROR function.