When does this error occur? On all requests? A particular query?

That error looks more like a network problem - a connection can't be made or an existing connection was broken.

+++ Rick ---

>Hi,
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>Would it be correct to assume that when SQL Select from VFP against SQL Server fails and the error is
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>Communication link failure
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>that the problem was that the SQL Connection timed out by the time user executed the SQL Select? Or if not, what else would be causing this type of error?
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>TIA