>Why is it that when I do this:
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>UPDATE ACRONYM SET ACRONYM="" WHERE PKID=10575
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>SQL Server 6.5 will always put a default space for a length of 1 in the table?
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>How can we accomplish a length of 0 which is what I am trying to do here?

could you use ...SET ACRONYM = CHR(0)... ?