fpODBC to SQL question

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:21:40PM -0500, Richard Kreiss achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> Although Ken recommended using low level to go directly to your SQL
> database, one other solution would be to create an intermediate filepro
> file(s) mapped to the sql file(s). You can then write any processing needed
> to update your filepro records from the intermediate file.  Not an elegant
> solution but should work with a minimum of programming.

You would map over varchar(NNN) -how-, exactly?  

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