An important first step to tracking this down would be to turn on ODBC tracing in your ODBC panel. Then run your code. Then turn it off (dont forget!) Then spend some time analyzing the trace ouput. You will probably find that perls regexes come in useful.... At bare minimum this will give you better idea as to which component is responsible for your trouble.

:-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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