>It sounds to me like the warning should be more along the lines of: If your application will use different locales, or if you are changing SET CENTURY or SET DATE settings manually, then avoid using DTOC(). Otherwise, DTOC(x,1) will always work just fine.

DTOC(x,1) will always work. It's equivalent to DTOS(). It's only DTOC() without the second parameter that's a bad idea.

Tamar