Mike (and in response to long messages getting cut off):

How are you passing text into the database? I never tried passing a string into a text (ie memo) field. Maybe that's the problem.

As for the slanted apostrophe be converted to AE, that's probably a bug in the sql server, don't ya think?

-Brian (one of the other Onstage/Mudcat helpers)

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