>>>Not quite it. I want to pad with nothing. It seems that the other guy (working in powerbuilder and sybase's SQL anywhere) is kinda working with SET ANSI ON -- that is to say, "CERT " # "CERT" so I need to only write the first four characters... I think its an ODBC setting or something, at least I hope there is something like that.
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>>You may call stored prosedure which will use SUBSTRING function (I guess Sybase and SQL-Server both use identical functions) to force left characters only, though I have no idea how Sybase actually stores data.
>Edward Pikman
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>You mean create the stored procedure in SYBASE? Ouch... Would I have to do that for every field? I was hoping there was a way to tell foxpro not to pad with spaces with INSERT-SQL... That way, it would take care of all the fields, including name, address, etc.

Surely, not for every field. You move whole INSERT to Sybase stored procedure. The positive end of this is that after you did it your Powerbuilder colleague will not have merits to blame VFP for his own problems.