>Me thinks you are doomed. The issue will be with the driver and/or the OS, and not with Oracle. I have had problems with Oracle's ODBC drivers when used with VFP. I have had only 1 [known] problem with the MS ODBC for Oracle. That problem does have a managebale work-around but has nothing to do with memo fields. I am surprised the functionality of the drivers is affected by the OS.

I just need to get the MS driver working on my system. I tried it with Access and Visual Interdev and it won't work there either, so I have a system problem. Installing the latest MDAC didn't help.

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>On the Oracle side, my data type is LONG. In my forms I set the NullValue property to 1 space so the null value does not display. Therefore, I am always sending either a null value or actual text. I have no problems updating these types of fields from VFP.

Thanks for the tip on setting the NullValue property!

Del