>Thank you Fred for joining in,
>I tried that a prior to posting this thread. Although I did not get the same error, I did get a different error. I got an OLE IDISPATCH error that advised me that I reached either EOF or BOF. But that is wrong also. Becasue the record that I am SELECTing for via the WHERE clause is a valid record. Any other thoughts?
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Neil,

What's the size of custid field? If it's more than 6 characters, try to pad '765583' to the size of the field with spaces.

rs=oConnection.Execute([SELECT * FROM arypat01 WHERE custid= '765583   '] )