>I am using the following in VFP6 to pull records from a SQL Server 7 database.
>
>oConn=CREATEOBJECT("ADODB.Connection")
>WITH oConn
> .Provider = "SQLOLEDB.1"
> .ConnectionString = " Persist Security Info = False;User ID = sa;Initial Catalog = Portfolio;Data Source = SCM_TWO2"
> .Open
>ENDWITH
>
>lcselectstr = A very long SQL Statement
>oRs=CREATEOBJECT("ADODB.RecordSet")
>oRs.Open(lcselectstr,oConn,3,4)
>?oRs.RecordCount
>
>The data comes over just the way I want it but the RecordCount Property of the RecordSet Object returns a value of -1.
>Any ideas why this occurs?

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If you don't set CursorType property it defaults to "forward only" cursor. With this type of cursors Recordcount returns -1.
Cetin