>Am looking for best ways to overwrite the contents of an SQL Server table with the contents of a dbf table under foxpro v 6.0 program control. Would rather not have to use DTS.
>
>TIA for any suggestions.

I've created this procedure to transfer table data to a FirebirdSQL server. Maybe you can modify it to work with SQLServer

PROCEDURE dbf2fb
PARAMETERS tcTable, tnConnHnd, tlAddData
*parameters:	tcTable		table name or full path
*				tnConnHnd	valid connection handle to Firebird database returned by SQLConnect()
*				tlAddData	transfer table data?
_t1=SECONDS()
LOCAL lcCreateTableSQL, lcCreateIndexSQL, lcDropTableSQL, lcInsertDataSQL, ;
		lcVFPTypes, lcFBTypes, lcOptions, lnFields, lnNDX
LOCAL ARRAY laVFPTypes[9], laFBTypes[9], laOptions[9]

USE (tcTable)

*types translation table
lcVFPTypes = 'C^D^L^M^N^F^I^B^Y^T'
lcFBTypes  = 'CHAR^DATE^SMALLINT^BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT^NUMERIC^FLOAT^INTEGER^DOUBLE PRECISION^NUMERIC^TIMESTAMP'
lcOptions  = 'C^ ^ ^ ^N^N^ ^ ^N^ ^ '
lnFields = AFIELDS(laFlds)
ALINES(laVFPTypes,lcVFPTypes,.t.,'^')
ALINES(laFBTypes,lcFBTypes,.t.,'^')
ALINES(laOptions,lcOptions,.t.,'^')
tcTable = ALIAS()		
*build SQL statements
lcDropTableSQL = [DROP TABLE ]+tcTable				

SET TEXTMERGE on
SET TEXTMERGE TO memvar lcCreateTableSQL NOSHOW 

\\CREATE TABLE <<tcTable>> (
FOR i=1 TO lnFields
	IF i>1
		\\, 
	ENDIF
	lnFieldTypeRange = ASCAN(laVFPTypes, laFlds[i,2])
	IF !'getkey'$LOWER(laFlds[i,9])
		\\<<laFlds[i,1]>> <<laFBTypes[lnFieldTypeRange]>>
	ELSE
		\\<<laFlds[i,1]>> BIGINT 
	ENDIF 	
	IF laOptions[lnFieldTypeRange] = 'N'
		\\(<<laFlds[i,3]>>,<<laFlds[i,4]>>)
	ENDIF
	IF laOptions[lnFieldTypeRange] = 'C'
		\\(<<laFlds[i,3]>>)
	ENDIF
	IF laFlds[i,5] = .f. 
		\\ NOT NULL 
	ENDIF
NEXT
\\)
SET TEXTMERGE to
SQLEXEC(tnConnHnd,lcDropTableSQL)
IF SQLEXEC(tnConnHnd,lcCreateTableSQL) < 0
	AERROR(laError)
	DISPLAY MEMORY LIKE laError
	?lcCreateTableSql
ENDIF
SQLCOMMIT(tnConnHnd)
*build and execute SQL statements to add data if third parameter is .T.
IF tlAddData=.t.
	z=0
	SET TEXTMERGE on
	SET TEXTMERGE TO memvar lcInsertDataSQL NOSHOW 
	\\INSERT INTO <<tcTable>> (
	FOR i=1 TO lnFields
		IF i>1
			\\, 
		ENDIF
		\\<<laFlds[i,1]>>
	NEXT
	\\) VALUES (
	FOR i=1 TO lnFields
		IF i>1
			\\, 
		ENDIF
		\\?m.<<laFlds[i,1]>>
	NEXT
	\\) 
	SET TEXTMERGE to
	SQLPREPARE(tnConnHnd,lcInsertDataSql)
	SCAN
		SCATTER MEMVAR 
		z=z+1
		FOR i=1 TO lnFields
			lcVarName = 'm.'+laFlds[i,1]
			DO case
			CASE TYPE(laFlds[i,1]) = 'L'	&&logical type, need conversion
				&lcVarName = IIF(EVALUATE(laFlds[i,1]) = .T.,1,0)
			CASE TYPE(laFlds[i,1]) = 'D' AND EMPTY(EVALUATE(laFlds[i,1]))   &&empty date, need conversion
				&lcVarName = '1900-01-01'
			CASE TYPE(laFlds[i,1]) = 'T' AND EMPTY(EVALUATE(laFlds[i,1]))	&&empty datetime, need conversion
				&lcVarName = '1900-01-01 00:00:00'
			CASE TYPE(laFlds[i,1]) = 'M' AND EMPTY(EVALUATE(laFlds[i,1]))	
				&lcVarName = ' '
			ENDCASE
		NEXT
		IF SQLEXEC(tnConnHnd) < 1
			CLEAR
			AERROR(xx)
			DISPLAY MEMORY LIKE xx
			?'insert error'
			SUSPEND
		ENDIF
		IF MOD(z,100) = 0
			SET MESSAGE to STR(z)
		endif
	ENDSCAN
ENDIF
CLEAR
?
?SECONDS()-_t1

*build and execute SQL statements to create indexes
lnNDX = ATAGINFO(laIndexes)
FOR i=1 TO lnNDX
	lcIndexName = ALIAS()+'_'+laIndexes[i,1]
	IF laIndexes[i,2] = 'PRIMARY'
		lcCreateIndexSQL = [ALTER TABLE ]+tcTable+[ ADD PRIMARY KEY (]+laIndexes[i,3]+[)]
	ELSE 
		lcCreateIndexSQL = [CREATE INDEX ]+tcTable+[_]+ALLTRIM(STR(I))+[ ON ]+tcTable+[ (]+LaIndexes[i,3]+[)]
	ENDIF
	?lcCreateIndexSQL
	
	SQLEXEC(tnConnHnd,lcCreateIndexSQL)
	SQLCOMMIT(tnConnHnd)
NEXT

RETURN