Okay thanks, I will keep this in mind Dimitry

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...> wrote:
>
> > This is data coming over from SQL-Pass Through I do in VFP if it matters.
>
> SUM of SMALLINTs is BIGINT, but VFP is not clever enough to recognize
> BIGINTs, so it is transformed to CHAR.
>
> SY, SD.
>