I think maybe the problem has to do with one or both of two issues with the VFP ODBC Driver. MS KB article Q288863 says the driver should be configured to NOT do background fetching when used with a multi-threaded application such as ASP. It also mentions possibility of the enviornmental variables TMP and TEMP being invalid. The driver uses temp files and if the environmental variable are not functioning problems can arrise from insufficient free drive space.