Lynn,

Thanks for the advice. I didn't think to include the code to create the environment I am using.

I will do so in future.

What was in your code samples looks fine....

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it. I'll stick with the null value method.

When you use a flat file destination, you set up your flat file connection manager. In the connection manager you can specify that the column names make up the first...

I'm slowly phasing out VFP, so I don't want to make any more changes to that if possible. The only reason I have to maintain data on VFP free tables...