I had a similar problem, and found that between the MSKB and the UTKB article on Oracle through ODBC, I was able to create, use and destroy the ODBC data source definition through VFP. My code is at work - I can paste it into a reply later today....
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I think so Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?
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