> >What does BASE: mean? Why is it there? Is it what causes the column
> >to be excluded? Is the SQL is the right form?
>
> Base: means that there won't be (can't be) any conversion on the
> data. Those columns would be blobs.

No, Base means you are simply doing an Assign() from the source to the
destination columns. This is simply because it isn't possible to do DIRECT
binding. In the case of BLOB columns you will never have DIRECT binding
because its data is outside of the direct buffers.

HTH,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com