>Does Visual Foxpro 5.0 use ODBC to to fetch data or
>is ODBC used just for the connection to the SQL server
>and VFP taks directly to the server using the connection
>provided by ODBC ???????
>I am unable to get a consice opinion here - Please Help
>
>JON

I have always been of the opinion that ODBC manages the connection to the backend and takes your SQL and puts it in the "language" of the backend (SQL-Server, Oracle, etc.). The backend parses, etc., and returns the result rows to the client. This is why you have different ODBC drivers for each backend.