>>I don't know. It is just when I set the value in the XML (again using my own serializer) and then (in the SQL Server SP) I try to get the value back, I get the error. It appears that the code in the SQL Server SP expects the separators. Why?, I don't know.
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SELECT @TargetDate = [Fld FldName].value('.','char(10)') ...>
>forces the result to be 10 characters wide, with no separators, there are 2 spaces trailers that would cause an exception. Simply use varchar(10) instead of char(10). If time might be included then that would be more than 10 or shifting would cause first character to be included, prefer something like varchar(20).
I think you are right. I saw this last night too, when trying to figure out what is wrong with my code. I will change it today and test with either varchar(10) or char(8) and date without separators. I will let you know how it works.
Thank you.
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