>yeah, I noticed that EXECSCRIPT() was supported in VFPOLEDB after I decided to abandon the SP route. Guess it could have been made to work there.
>At the moment I'm going to a combination of using VFPOLEDB and a COM DLL. The former for the simple data retrieval into VS tables and the latter for the awkward bits like memo retrieval and the places where I can make good use of the existing VFP class libraries.

Depends on how frequently you need to call this, because execscript() creates a .prg and then .fxp every time it's called. Not quite sure when these get deleted, if ever. So speed may be an issue, and perhaps garbage too.