>There has to be a way since VFP does it for the views but it probably involves some obscure work with the ODBC API, perhaps from an FLL or some such. Oh well, if this stuff was easy...

The cursor adapter object in 8.0 allows you to set this value for both ADO and ODBC. However, neither expose such a setting when configuring either.

>On another note, I lived in Atlanta for 8 years. Spring up here means watching for the lakes to melt. I saw fish houses on a nearby lake just a couple of weeks ago.
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I'm sure. I grew up in the Chicago area and spring there isn't that much different than Minnesota. The ice just melts a couple of weeks earlier.:-)