>>I am transfering data from Access to VFP with ODBC.
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>>It woking find using remote view but some field that I transfer have Null value.
>>Is there a way prevent having Null in my Select SQL Result?
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>A small addition to Steve and Hector's responses...
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>You'll want to insert, if null, a value equal to the length of the field.
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>VFP SQL Select bases the field size of the resulting cursor on the lengths of the first record. If it happens to be a length less than the field length, you'll end up with a truncated value.
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> Jay

Jay,

Ah, yes, good point. So, if the field is 30 characters wide, for example, he needs to:

select NVL(custName, space(30)) as cCustName, ....

Thanks for catching that, that would have bitten him at some time down the road :)