You have probably figured out the problem -- the Oracle drivers are probably to blame. If so, there is not anything I know of you can do to fix it. Obviously the problem is not with SQL*Net or your host file [tnsnames.ora] since Excel and Access work. Can you try using the MS ODBC Driver for Oracle?

How are you connecting? SQLExec? SQLStringConnect? RV? With or without a DSN?

>I'm having a problem with Oracle Rdb ODBC and VFP6/7. I thought I'd bounce it off a few people before I call MS for support.
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>Please understand that this is NOT "regular" Oracle, but a "stepchild" they bought from Digital Equipment that doesn't get a lot of support. The database is a large decision support database of management data I query often, but never write to.
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>I am able to successfully access this database with an older set of ODBC drivers under W98. When I rebuilt my home machine to W2000 I got a new set of drivers and began having problems retrieving data.
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>MS Access and MS Query (through Excel) work properly, but when I retrieve data through VFP I do not get any field names, only Exp, Exp1, etc. and the data types are wrong, with dates and SUM() fields coming through as text. The data, as far as I can tell, are correct.
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>My guess is that VFP cannot properly communicate with this ODBC driver. Anyone seen anything like this before?