Gregory-

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>If you want it readable, you can strip out the dashes etc, this reduces it to 32 bytes which is the hex represention

Heh, well I'm not too sure the dashes make it any more or less readable < g >, but you're right. And I gather there is an issue here with SQL Server data via ADO. Someone with experience there will comment, I hope, but IIRC something I read said that you have the dashes and braces if your connecting to SQL Server.