>>Thanks for going to the trouble of doing this. At Cetin's suggestion I removed the lines referencing memo fields and then it worked. So you are saying the problem isn't with the SELECT syntax so there must be something happening in the data in those memo fields - can't figure out how that would translate to a "String too long to fit" error ...
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>And I even didn't notice that I have MAX(Memo) in the query! No matter that I create a cursor :-(. Hmmm, not good for me.
Well, today my colleague claims the select works for him. I like the CAST(null as memo) thing to get a blank memo field in the result set. But with data being pulling into the cursor that you constructed by hand I get the error. Odd. I am going to have to see him run it to believe it <g>
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