Thanks
Sergey,
That explains why even after trimming my variable it didn't work.
It's always nice to return from lunch to a solved problem!



>Because default lenght for char type in this case is one caracter, IOW it's the same as

declare @sOsmOsc char(1)

I recomend that you always specify size.

declare @sOsmOsc char(3)
>-- Or
>declare @sOsmOsc varchar(32)

>
>>I thought this was as simple as it gets but:
>>Can someone tell me why the following IF statement fails?
>>I would have expected this to match but my SET command only executes if I set the condition to !=.
>

>>Declare @oscString character
>>declare @sOsmOsc character
>>set @sOsmOsc = 'OSC'
>>
>>IF @sOsmOsc = 'OSC'
>>       SET @oscString = 'T'
>