>>>What if you pad with spaces the 'ADL66609' value so it matches the length of the DocNumber field? I will bet that works as well. Not sure why you have that problem, because it works for me. I am using the MS VFP Driver v6.01.8629.01
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>>No, no the problem is that it is not finding any records that start with ADL66609. If I did the first query from the VFP command window I would get 6 records in my cursor. But not through ODBC. Does ODBC to VFP table not respond the same way as VFP command window SQL or is ODBC interpreting the = as exactly equal and not starts with like VFP does in its SQL.
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>OIC! I do get the same results if I just query on the first letters of a string. That is I get no records. But, if I pass the complete string, I do get matches. Otherwise, I have to use LIKE operator.

Is Rushmore kicking in when the LIKE is done or does ODBC take rushmore completely out of the picture?