>>>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.
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>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.
But couldn't you simply get the legacy ODBC and install it on your notebook that didn't have it?
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