Hi Jeff,

set varcharmapping on is only for VFP SELECT - SQL. For ODBC driver you must use CursorAdapter with MapVarchar=.T.

MartinaJ

>I'm sorry to bother everyone again about this subject, but I'm stuck...
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>We have a MS SQL Server 2012 and VFP9. We want to use varchars in SQL Server and have them come down to VFP9 as varchars, but the best I can do is they come down as character and not varchar.
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>I'm pretty sure I've done this successfully at my last job where we only had MSSQL 2008.
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>Here are my various connection string efforts:
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>?sqlstringconnect("Driver={SQL Server};Server=.;Database=jeff;Trusted_Connection=yes;")
>?sqlstringconnect("Driver={SQL Server Native Client 10.0};Server=.;Database=jeff;Trusted_Connection=yes;")
>?sqlstringconnect("Driver={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};Server=.;Database=jeff;Trusted_Connection=yes;")
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>And I select * from a table in my db that has one Id field and one varchar field. But, as I said before, they are fat padded characters in VFP9. I've also set varcharmapping on.
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>Help!