>>Remote views require a connection in the DBC. However, you can set the connection up to use a connection
>>string rather than a DSN. So, yes, you can use remote views without a DSN.
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>And as of VFP8, I believe, you can specify a connection string for individual views at USE time.
Pardon me for being dumb but what I don't understand is: if you don't have a DSN specified in the list of SYSTEM/USER DSN list in the ODBC Data Source Administrator, how does VFP "know" that you are connecting to SQL Server and not to ORACLE or Paradox?
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