I'm not sure but with MSSQL I think all varchar longer than 255 characters 
get converted automatically to memo.

Anders



"Tom Krieg"  skrev i meddelandet news:4fa73ceb@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...

Unless you CAST it as text. And you can only determine that it is over
255 chars with an admin utility for your SQL server.

On 7/05/2012 1:06 PM, Tom Krieg wrote:
> Not only proview, also Paradox. If you send a SELECT statement to a SQL
> server, selecting a varchar field of more than 255, Paradox barfs. This
> is a BDE problem, proview and Paradox both depend on it.

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