Hi Evan,

I'm glad it worked for you.

>Hi Sergey.
>
>I ended up using this technique because of another problem with ASP.NET removing the decimal portion of a number in my schema. My biz tier has a method with gives me the proper schema for a record, instead of the .NET modified version.
>
>Thanks a ton for your help.
>
>>You can try to pre-build cursor with date type for that field and run XMLTOCURSOR() with 8192 flag (use existing cursor).
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