>Did you use profiler to compare the SELECT that is sent to the back end with the remote view and compare it to that sent by the cursor adapter? That may give a clue as to why you are getting this problem?
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Hi BOb

In the end i push the IMAGE column into TEXT (also blob type)... and
it worked.

Do not ask why. But if you search 8K "SQL server" odbc, you'll get an
idea of what may happen in the odbc<>cursoradapter implementation.

Thank you for pushing me into this kind of curious tinkering.

François