LOCAL oTest AS CursorAdapter oTest = CREATEOBJECT("CursorAdapter") oTest.DataSourceType = "ODBC" oTest.DataSource = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(.....) oTest.BufferModeOverride = 5 oTest.FetchSize = -1 oTest.UseCursorSchema = .t. oTest.MapBinary = .t. oTest.MapVarchar = .t. oTest.Alias = "crsTest" WITH oTest.CursorSchema NOSHOW PRETEXT 15 TheVarcharMaxField M ENDWITH WITH oTest.SelectCmd NOSHOW SELECT TheVarcharMaxField FROM YourTable ENDWITH oTest.CursorFill() BROWSE NORMALNOT TESTED!!!