You need to provider a schema. Going by memory, one of the parameters is for that.

>I have a table that is being sent via cursortoxml and then back using xmltocursor. All works well unless I have just one record with a field that is character type, but has a number in it. When that happens, the cursor created is inferred to be numeric. It's hard to predict when this will happen without having a data dictionary to compare to. As a result if I try to copy from the cursor to my destination table, I get data type mismatches.
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>Is there any way to force cursortoxml and xmltocursor to respect the data type of the original table?
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>Thanks in advance!