Thanks, that appears to do the trick. I've worked with Fox since the late '80s and miss the wealth of functions. I have to assume SQL Server will let me do what I need to do, but it ain't obvious at first glance.

gary

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>>Hi,
>>I'm converting a VFP app to run against an SQL Server backend so I'm having to put some of the functions into SQL Server sp's. I want to test a parameter sent to a stored procedure to see if anything was passed. In VFP I'd use empty() but nothing like that seems to exist in SQL Server. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.