>>Hello, All
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>>A theoretical discussion:
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>>Does Client-Server architecture implies always using ODBC?
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>>Is there another way to connect to a SQL Server from VFP?
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>>Thank you
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>Nothing theoretical about this...you can connect without going thru an ODBC-defined DSN. It's pretty easy in Windows NT, and I'm pretty sure it's doable in earlier versions.
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>You can do this thru SQL-passthrough and DBC-defined connections.

But don't DBC-defined connections use ODBC to connect to the SQL database?