There're no memo data types in the MS SQL Server. A text data can be stored in numerous character data types:
ANSI - char, varchar, text
UNICODE - nchar, nvarchar, ntext

Based on your description, it's one of Unicode character data types. You can use STRCONV(,6) to conver Unicode data to ANSI.

>I'm accessing a SQL Server table using a remote view in VFP. The field contains a email address -- plain text -- but the SQL column is defined as being memo type. When I browse the table and view the contents of the memo field, I see a funny special character appearing between each significant character of the email. The character is a tiny square -- best I can guess it's Unicode (hex) 25A1 or 25AB. If I use SQL Server administrator and issue "SELECT email from customer" I see the actual email address, ready to go. But if I do "SELECT email from rvCustomer" I get a query with the column and Memo or memo appearing in each row cell. If I CTRL+PageDown to open the memo field, I see the email address with the small squares. If I try "SELECT alltrim(email) or trim(email), I only get the first character of the contents of the field.
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>I even tried to figure out how to effect the equivalent of "SELECT STRTRAN(email,"A","ZZZZ") FROM rvcustomer" to get rid of the little squares to no avail.
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>Does anyone know what's going on? I called our vendor and he hadn't heard of FoxPro. I think the SQL Server is version 8.