>A naive question ...
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>I want to attach to an Oracle 8.0 database on a Unix server from a Windows NT 4.0 client using VFP 6.0.
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>Does anybody know of any gottchas?? or have any recomondations??
>For exapmle, is there a preferred ODBC driver( Microsoft or Oracle);
>Can I use sqlexec??
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>Any advice is appreciated
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>Thanks,
>Eric Norquist

Eric,

Both drivers work fine. In my case I found that VFP 6.0's connection wizard fails sometimes when the ODBC driver specified is Oracle's. I use the Microsoft drivers without any problems. You can use any SQL passthrough command. It'll work.