I do not know. I would start a new thread and post what you are having problems with the specific SPT code in a prg versus the command window observations. There are plenty of SQL Server gurus here that could probably answer that. My DB expertise is with Oracle instead of SQL Server.

>After fiddling a bit, it appears the SPT commands are not operating correctly when run within the caBuilder. It is not a problem with the builder code. Running in STEP ON mode I can see that the SQLTABLES and SQLEXEC commands are returning "0". So I cut an paste these lines exactly as written in the prg to my command window and execute them where they return "1" as they should. Then I can continue with the program execution in the debugger window.
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>I have not encountered this behavior before where the SPT commands don't work in the prg but work fine in the command window. Any ideas on what is causing this?
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>Paul