>>>My advice is to ... help me finish mine. I have it about 40% completed, and about 80% designed. It functions from the command line, but has many incomplete features:
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>My advice is that customers need to be able to do queries against VARCHAR(max) today, so unless you have an alternative now, please don't think it noble to sabotage other efforts you say you have no intention of using.
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What do you mean by queries against VARCHAR(max)? I use this type of column and SQL Select from my VFP SP2 application with WHERE clause. What am I missing?
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