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>>The VFP Programmer's guide, chapter 6 entitled "Creating Client/Server Solutions" should give you a good start.
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>been there... done that ... and bought the t-shirt...
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>I guess i am looking for info similar to "the hackers guide for VFP"
>but information specific to SQL pass through....
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>information like what connection string to use to begin a connection with database type "X".
>stuff that just ain't in the docs.
>
>thanks...
>Dave.

That info is specific to each driver and can be found on the driver's help file, if one is supplied. For example, for the VFP ODBC driver that help file would be c:\windir\system32\drvvfp.hlp.