>Hi Experts,
>
>Why does the SQL Statement below yield a Character field for TOTALQTY?
>
>

>SELECT A.DATE, F.DESCRIPTOR AS CUSTNAME, E.DESCRIPTOR AS PRODNAME, D.DATE AS PICKUPDATE,
>       COUNT(*) AS TOTALQTY
> FROM XOUT_HO A, XOUT_HODTL B, PARCEL C, JOBORDER D, PRODUCT E, CUSTOMER F
> WHERE A.ID=B.XOUT_HOID AND B.PARCELID=C.ID AND C.JOBORDERID=D.ID AND D.PRODUCTID=E.ID AND
>       D.CUSTOMERID=F.ID AND A.DATE BETWEEN "2010-01-01" AND "2010-10-15" AND YEAR( A.POSTDATE ) > 0
> GROUP BY 1,2,3,4
>

>
>Thanks in advance
>Dennis

Don't know your DBMS but I had the same problem for MySql. My original solution was to CAST as a DECIMAL field but in another forum I found the following link

http://saltydogllc.com/?p=193

which shows a way of altering your connection string to support BigInt fields.