>>I will try Binary of Varbinary with the legacy ODBC. BTW, legacy ODBC works very well with the VARCHAR(MAX); I use it all the time.
Yes, it fortuitously maps to TEXT. That driver didn't come with my latest notebook that only has the more prevalent Native Client 11 that maps VARCHAR(MAX) to an impossible 0-length field in VFP9.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
