I haven't used updategrams. Erik MOore is the person to ask, but if I recall he got it to work, but he said there were problems with consistent results...
+++ Rick ---
>Rick:
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>Have you ever gotten this command to work? I've tried to use an ADO stream, per the example in the XML Web Services 2.0 for SQL Server. Although I get no error, the XMLUpdateGram doesn't do anything in the SQL Server table I'm accessing.
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>Possible Issues
>- I assume the updategram has to be well-formed XML; the example isn't, but my updategram is.
>- I see that the updategram is encoded for "UTF-8". Does this require anything special on the SQL Server?
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>Thanks.
>John Baerg