Steve,

Try making the bDocument an image type field in SQL.
If you are using remote views, the view designer in VFP will allow you to remap to different data types on your remote view, and is probably the easiest way to accomplish this.

John

>Via the MMC, I created a simple table in MSDE (workstation version of MSSQL7) called worddocs. It's for holding a path to an original word document (text) and a version of a word document (blob). So I have:
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>COLUMNNAME        DATATYPE     LENGTH    ...
>cTitle            char         239
>bDocument         binary       10
>iID               int          4         primary key
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>I then made my little DSN (would prefer to go dsnless on this if anyone can throw me a bone on that) and then made a dbc and my view in the command window:

>create view worddocs_vw remote connection connect1 as select * from worddocs

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>But cTitle comes out in the VFP view as type memo and bDocument comes out at memo(binary). I want cTitle to come out as char and bDocument as general and iID as integer.
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>VFP isn't automatically translating anything. USEing the table and doing list stru, I get:

>FIELD NAME       TYPE           WIDTH
>cTitle           Memo           4
>bDocument        Memo (binary)  4
>iID              Integer        4

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>When I was going remote views on Oracle 7.3, the translation was working OK. MSSQL7 is ignoring me.
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>In the (near) future, I am going to be staring at around 1,400 MSSQL7 tables that I was going to use remote views on, so manually doing dbsetprop() on every column will kill me - especially since the DBAs may be changing the back-end table structure(s) at will.
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>Maybe using some kind of data conversion class will help me here? I am lost on something that is probably right under my nose....
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>Thanks for helping!