Joseph,
We have had this problem sporadically. Can you give me the Q number of the MSDN article or the search criteria you used to find it?
>Has anyone had a problem with CHR(0)s appearing in SQL pass-through cursors? MSDN has identified this problem, and have suggested the following "solution":
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>SYS (3050, 1, VAL (SYS (1001) ) )
>SYS (3050, 2, VAL (SYS (1001) ) )
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>However this has a nasty side-effect of making VFP think it has more physical memory than it has. This has serious performance issues when dealing with large tables.
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>I wonder if this will be fixed in the next version of VFP (it hasn't in the SPs so far...)