How do you deal with VFP adding trailing spaces to the Access field values?

>I use ODBC and remote views to MS Access tables. Works great.
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>>I can do this much, which gets me a list of the tables in a chosen .MDB file stuck into the ACCTABLES cursor.
>>My goal is to be able to add records to the customer table in the open database, but I guess my SQLEXEC function isn't the way to go about it...
>>How far off am I?
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>>sh = SQLCONNECT() && Will ask me what I want to connect to
>>retval = SQLSETPROP(sh, 'Asynchronous', .F.)
>>retval = SQLTABLES(sh, "TABLE", "ACCTABLES")
>>retval = SQLEXEC(sh, [INSERT INTO Customer (firstname, lastname) VALUES ("first_name", "last_name")] )
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>>retval = SQLEXEC(sh, "SELECT * FROM Customer", "custcopy")
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>>SELECT custcopy
>>BROW && And it's still empty!
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>>What should I be doing?
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>>Thanx!