I have identified what going on. I 'm hoping someone can help me with a solution.
I've been using rbase from way, way back. Because of our old code we still use quotes =" Both of my databases use quotes = ". A BRO command that does not use quotes in the search works fine. (i.e. search for an integer). If I connect to the rbase DB that I want to attach to and change to quotes = ' and then disc and connect to my receiving db the query works fine (leaving quotes = " on the receiving database). I don't understand the function of Idquotes and documentation is sparse , but when I change to IDquotes = " on the DB I'm attaching to, the BRO query it works fine. Unfortunately rbase will not allow me to set Idquotes = " and Quotes = " (I suspect that this would also wreck havoc with my Microsoft SQL ODBC queries). Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Is there documentation on Idquotes I'm not finding? I truly do appreciate all the help that be given to me here and when a question in my area of expertise (Telecommunications & Infrastructure) is posted I have always tried to answer thoroughly and I do understand how much unpaid time it takes to help people out.

