Thank you.
I am now trying out the MS driver and get a new problem. I get a connectivity error when I try to connect for the first time after I start
VFP, but get connection in second attempt. Do you know why this is?

>Hi Omar,
>
> Use MS ODBC driver 2.0 OR retype NUMERIC to FLOAT.
>
> MartinJ
>
>
>>When I create VFP remote view of ORACLE table with column of NUMBER datatype and one decimal VFP converts the datatype to NUMERIC with one decimal but ignores the decimal values in calculatinons. I.e. treats 56.6
>>as 56.0
>>I use the ORACLE ODBC driver. Can someone explain this behaviour?