>>>Your suggestion with the PADR() around the REPLICATE, gives the same error. The number (10 or 15) has to match the field length.
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>Aha! In that case try this:
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? LEN(REPLICATE("&bsp;",-1))

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>A single culprit REFERENCE longer than 10 char could cause this.

MUST cause this.

The problem is the use of ALLTRIM with a field longer then 10 chars in SELECT SQL. Look at message#01684075, I gave all the info were the problem comes from there.