>IIRC - the problem with the old odbc driver is that date fields don't work.
>
>Pick your poison:
>Old odbc driver works with varchar(max) but not date
>New odbc driver works with date but not varchar(max), you have to use Text instead

Yep, that's what I've found as well. I've stuck with the older driver for this reason - the varchar(max) had been a bigger blocking issue..

There is also the VFP2C32 project on VFPX which includes ODBC function for SQL. I've been meaning to test it to see if it does a better job handling things.