>Hi John,
>
>> I'm confused...is your back-end (server) database VFP?
>
>Yes the database is an '.DBC'


Stored procedures are not directly supported by the VFP ODBC driver. Even if they were, I don't think that using ODBC to access VFP data is wise.

If you want to offload processing to your server, write a COM object and invoke it via DCOM, and pass your data back as ADO recordserts or XML.