This is absolutely not true. While accessing data via ODBC over a WAN is
slow and cumbersome (made worse by slow connections), if data packets are
lost its not a factor of ODBC. Of course, using efficient queries via ODBC
improves the transfer time.

We use ODBC connections across our WAN every day, all day.

Ross

"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have been told by our consultant that we cannot access our SQL Server
>over
> the WAN without corrupting our data, is this true?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> David