>>Hi,
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>>I have come across the following problem, which duplicated in multiple tests.
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>>First a little background for those who have not seen my other thread. In order to update Identity column in the cursor created with a CursorAdapter I use the following method. I have the following code in the BeforeInsert method of the CA:
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>> cInsertCmd = cInsertCmd + ;  
>>	        "; DECLARE @id int; SELECT @id = SCOPE_IDENTITY()" + ;  
>>	        "; EXEC Get_identity_Value @id, ?@" + ;  
>>	        this.Alias + "." + ALLTRIM(this.IDENTITY_FIELD) 
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>>The above code is suppose to set value of the identity column to the value of scope_identity(). And it work UNLESS one of the columns where entry is made is of type VARCHAR(MAX) NULL. That is, if I leave the editbox control empty and let SQL Server set NULL as the value in the VARCHAR(MAX) column, the above code sets the value to the identity column in the cursor to the identity value from the SQL Server. But if I make any entry into the editbox control, the value in the identity column of the cursor is 0 (zero).
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>>What could be happening here? TIA.
>
>Did you try firing profiler and inspect exact commands sent to SQL Server?

Somehow I knew you were going to ask me this <g>. I need to finally bite the bullet and learn how to use the SQL profiler. I started learning one time and then never finished. Maybe this problem will make me.