Thanks, Rick, and maybe some day I'll find the time to look at the demo stuff.

In the meantime, a Wish is a Wish and I do intend to submit it (again) soon.

In fact, in the wishes I have sent to FP/VFP over the years, I sent this one just after VFP 3 was released and it is the only one where a reply came direct. It said that they were actively examining this type of issue.

Not much, I know, but it did give me hope at the time.

Cheers,

Jim N

>>I want to be able, in the native VFP language, to have a SQL statement processed by another workstation and have the result-set returned to the issuing (of the SQL statement) workstation as a normal and regular cursor( or perform any updates or deletes, depending on the SQL statement issued). A VFP-Server, if you will, talking with VFP clients. No ADO, no ODBC, no SQL-passthrough, no anything fancy. Sure, maybe some new SET command or two, and/or maybe some new clause(s) for USE command, but that's about it.
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>You'll never see that in the language.
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>However, you can do that today with Web Connection over the Web... where the
>Web could be an intranet working on the machine sitting next to you.
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>The wwHTTPData class will return a Fox cursor to you using Syntax very similar to SQL Passthrough running the query on the Web server. You can try this yourself with an online demo at:
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>http://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/wwHTTPDemo.app
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>The demo is an ActiveDoc, so you need IE4 or later and VFP6 on the machine
>to run this demo. FWIW, this demo contains a number of other client side
>demos talking to a VFP Web server, including several XML data examples.