Prior to VFP8, you have to roll your own SQL to trim the values. Another way is to have INSERT/UPDATE triggers in the database to RTRIM() your VARCHAR columns. In VFP8, you have the CursorAdapter that has a ConversionFunc property where you can provide a comma separated list of FieldName function pairs --

LastName RTRIM, FirstName RTRIM, ...

>I was curious if you ever ran into a situation where a VFP 7 Remote view always pads the end of a string with spaces? That is say I have a VARCHAR(30) on SQL Server and pull down a row of data that contains 'Pen' - or 3 characters of
>data. If this data is pushed back (saved) from VFP 7 to SQL Server 2000 it is going in as
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> 'Pen' + SPACE(27) instead of just 'Pen' - no trailing spaces.
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>Of course, this defeats the purpose of a VARCHAR. Is there a way to make the VFP remote views work without adding the trailing spaces?