Hi Fabio,

I've no problem running all three selects. Here're results

f1         lf1         
---------- ----------- 
 pippo               6 


f1         lf1         
---------- ----------- 

pippo               6 


f1         lf1         
---------- ----------- 
pippo               6 

What did you expect?

>Run this on SQL Query
>

>SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CHAR(0)+'pippo') f1,len(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CHAR(0)+'pippo')) lf1
>
>SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CHAR(1)+'pippo') f1,len(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CHAR(1)+'pippo')) lf1
>
>SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CHAR(2)+'pippo') f1,len(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CHAR(2)+'pippo')) lf1
>

>
>Fabio