Bruce,

>Just rcvd latest Advisor where Ken L writes of a new Blob datatype. Anyone, what might this be? Name isn't very descriptive (I hope, anyway :-)

Binary Large Object. This is one of the new features to improve VFP compatibility with SQL Server.

Here is a good explanation of BLOBs in SQL Server:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsqlmag03/html/ABLOBofaDifferentColor.asp