Sergey,

Thanks for the clarification!

>Jess,
>
>You may get this error if date format on SQL Server is different from the one in your VFP program or if your date is out of range of smalldatetime data type. In the first case you can either pass date as SPT parameter or convert it to the format that is always recognizable by SQL Server.

cDate = Dtoc(inven.refdate,1)

>
>>I'm using VFP8 with SQLSERVER2000 as DB backend. It's my first time encountering this strange error:
>>

>>cDate = Dtoc(inven.refdate)
>>csqldelete = [DELETE FROM itemldgr Where docdate <= ']+cdate+[']
>>If SQLEXEC(nConn,csqldelete) <= 0
>>   Aerror(car)
>>   MessageBox(Aerror(car(2)))
>>Endif
>>

>>Above gives me:
>>Connectivity Error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Syntax error converting character string to smalldatetime data type.
>>
>>What's missing???