>Thanks a lot, this clears up a number of things for me.
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>Just one more question on this:
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>can I get the equivalent of using == with a BETWEEN statement? as I get the same problem when using BETWEEN, preferably without SET ANSI ON as it may affect older code.
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>TIA, Craig.

With or w/o ansi no. Strings are included in a alphabetic sort order and it would mean '2' would come after '103' and before '210' :
myField between '103' and '210'
would get that '2' too. If that's what you really want then OK. I see that you use '103' in your sampling and thus I suspect all are somewhat numeric values. If so then you might be much more comfortable using val() instead :

where val(myField) = 103
where val(myField) between 103 and 210

If field contains some char too (ie: 103, 103R, 19B) you might then make it still numeric sort ordered with functions like padl(), chrtran().
Cetin