>>I added a column to a SQL Server table. The type is VARCHAR(MAX), default is empty string. When I select records from the table in the SSMS, the value is shown in this column. But when I run SQL Select from a VFP 9 application, the resulting cursor has NO value in this column.
This is a VFP9 bug with newer ODBC drivers: it returns impossible field type c(0) for varchar(max).
VFPA resolves this bug - see Fix 46 at
http://www.baiyujia.com/vfpdocuments/default.asp
"... 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
