Thanks again, it sure would be nice to evaluate COMCodeBook and know for sure it was COMCodeBook screwing up and not OLEDB. But alas that is the lot I have chosen in life and I must deal with it the best I can.

>According to Ken, it was suppoused to be released almost a month ago but wasn't and no word from MS so far.
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>>Thanks Sergey I may just do that, any word on when a Non-Beta OLE DB Provider will be available for 7?
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>>>The OLE DB provider from VFP7 is buggy. You've to download full VFP8beta to get VFP OLE DB provider. It's corrected version of the same provider but it still beta. At least you can find out if it's provider bug. I rememeber that there was problems with integer parameters in existing VFP OLE DB provider.