>>>How do I create the equivalent of a logical field in Oracle, which becomes a VFP logical field when I do a SQLEXEC("select *...") ?
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>>You can do this with a VFP remote view, but I don't think you can do it with SQL pass-through.
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>>With a remote view, you can cast a numeric value to be converted to a logical VFP value with something like:
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>>DBSetProp('YourView.YourNumField', 'Field', 'DataType', "L")
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>Thanks, Hector. Your reply is more encouraging than the others, at least. Now, how do they do that behind the scenes? And can I do that?

I don't have Oracle in here so I cannot test it myself with Oracle. When I did it I was using SQL Server. Jayesh says it is not possible in Oracle, though.