Kevin,
>>One way to accomplish
this would be to get the data back in structures already familiar to
the VFP application.
You might want to consider using a RV. RV fields do not require the same labels or field types as the underlying table. Conversion is automatic. We use this a lot to pull blobs into memo fields (simply set the RV field type as memo rather than general and it works) or to pull datetime fields as dates for date-only displays or manipulation. When you save the field it is converted back into the correct type automagically as well. If you use standard ANSI SQL it is easy to make the same RV work against multiple remote backends.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
