>>One more question on the varbinary column/field in the SQL Server
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>>If I want the default of the varbinary field to be empty but not null, would the value of 0 (zero) be the right type of default? That is, when a user retrieves the value in the varbinary field and cast it to a char type, the result is an empty string (of course if there was never a value set in the field).
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>>TIA
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>Dmitry,
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>On the SQL Server side, you should use 0x, which is the equivalent of VFP's 0h (the representation of an empty binary string).
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>Let m.ODBC be an active connection handle to your server:
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>CURSORSETPROP("MapBinary",.T.,0)
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>LOCAL SQLStmt AS String
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>TEXT TO m.SQLStmt NOSHOW
>DECLARE @Tmp TABLE (Col1 Int, Col2 Varbinary(10) not null default 0x);
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>insert into @Tmp (Col1) values (1);
>insert into @Tmp (Col1, Col2) values (2, 0xffff);
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>select * from @Tmp;
>ENDTEXT
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>SQLEXEC(m.ODBC, m.SQLStmt, "curResult")
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>SELECT *, LEN(Col2) FROM curResult INTO CURSOR curInspect
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>BROWSE
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>The result will be as you can see in the attached image,

Antonio,
Thank you very much!