No, she wants to store XML as is not to load data from it into a table(s). The image column would be the best because it's not affected by code page translation but it's hard to handle with SPT in pre-VFP9. The text will next best choice but the code page translation code be a problem.

>Oops, thanks Sergey. I'm guessing she probably needs to do something like:
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>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316005
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>>Hi Tracy,
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>>The BLOB and CLOB are not MS SQL Server data types. The Image, Text and Ntext are.
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>>>You can create a BLOB or CLOB column and insert the whole xml to the column. Not the ideal way though I don't think. You might want to read this first for another option:
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>>>http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=99813&rl=1
>>>