>>>I am using the following code to retrieve data into VFP from SQL Server 7.0:
>>>= SQLEXEC(gnConnHandle, lcQuery, "query1")
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>>>The result is a CURSOR called query1. My ultimate goal is to export the data to a text file.
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>>With the cursor created by the SQLEXEC function, you can use the EXPORT command. You don't need to pass through ADO for this.
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>That is correct. I just wanted to use OLEDB instead of ODBC.

You can use the VFPCOM utility to transform a recordset to a cursor and vice versa. But the added overhead to do this would far outweigh any benefits you got from using the OLE-DB provider. IMO, stick with what you've got.