>>I think you agreed with my assessment. I also prefer the MS ODBC driver. However, I do have to use the Oracle ODBC driver when calling an Oracle Stored Proc from VFP. I have not found a way to successfully do this with the MS driver. There is no problem using different drivers within the same app. I also do not use DSNs in my connections. I use a connection string instead.
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>Thanks for your thoughts in this matter. I apreciated the help.
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>One more thing, Could you recommend a good book that will be able to teach me how to Write & call Stored procs & packages. I'm having a tough time trying to read my wife's SQL Server code and translate it to Oracle.

If you could search in this forum and in the Oracle forum on my Member ID [12473] on the key words PACKAGE, ORACLE, PROCEDURE, and/or TRIGGER, you will get many hits including books, SP code, VFP code to call an SP, etc.