>>I think this, you think that - but the actuality would have to be tested. Don't have the profiler on this machine.
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>I'm 99.999% sure the conversion to N(17,0) in VFP will do nothing.

But then what's the problem? There's no float or other... the parameter passed is represented as a string in the insert command sent anyway. You'd have a

cast(@p15 as numeric(17,0))

and the @15 will be mentioned as ...,12345.5494850,... in the parameter list.