>>>Again, this was a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure (85% +) of this, since the app spent many, many years in VFP 6 and the port to 9 was primarily just a recompile.
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>>OK,, I see what you mean, though I was also a bit puzzled by Mike's simple test with VFP 6 that didn't work, if I understood one of his recent messages correctly.
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>>Maybe here's a question.....could it be that VFP 6 works when SQL Server is merely doing a RAISERROR (without a TRY...CATCH), but if SQL Server is doing a TRY...CATCH and then a RAISERROR, that VFP 6 would have trouble?)
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>>Again, just a question. If I had VFP 6 available, I'd give it a test because now I'm curious. Then again, running VFP 6 will just remind me of the days before my hair turned grey and white. :(
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>I might still have 6 on an external drive somewhere, but I'd have to remember where I put it. As far as the grey/white hair, I got my first one when I was 13.....

There is nothing to gain from that experiment. I have an acceptable workaround. Eventually we want to upgrade and I can either live with the code I now have, but since it's a separate module, I can try to improve it later.

Thanks