>>Did you find the exact length limitation? Was it somewhere near 8K or less?
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>>I've seen similar questions asked for different back-ends, want to see, what may be the limit.
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>Hi Naomi,
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>I think, from looking at the MS Access target record, that the original width attempted was around 7320 bytes; the view was originally sized near that and failed. When the fat was removed from the various fields it worked fine. So maybe the size limit is much less than 8K? I'd love to know the exact answer also.

Hi Irv,

Forgot to give you a most recent reference to the similar problem I saw (though I saw another discussion a while back at tek-tips forum on a similar problem too)

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1868843&SiteID=1