>The below query returns this error: The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression
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>select * from itable c WHERE EXISTS (select inci_id, vehi_id, * FROM ttable a WHERE a.inci_id = c.inci_id and exists (SELECT vehi_id, licpl_no, vehyear, make, model, color1, color2 FROM vtable b WHERE b.vehi_id = a.vehi_id AND licpl_no LIKE '%UNKNOWN%' AND len(LTRIM(RTRIM(make)))= 0 AND LEN(LTRIM(RTRIM(model)))=0))
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>It works in SQL2005, but not 2000?

Can you exclude image and other suspicious types from the result set? Also in EXISTS you need to only do

where EXISTS (select 1 from ...)