You've two choices
1. Turn off DBC events
2. Use VFP OLE DB provider that comes with VFP7

>Hi Sergey,
>
>Thanks for your reply. I found out that the .dbc has events in them in the beforeopentables... It checks to see if a public variable is present and if the value of that variable is correct, sort of a security measure I guess upon opening tables inside the .dbc. How can I work around this problem?