Kevin & Kevin (gee, that should be a TV show name <g>),

Yes, that's the problem with the SP. By not specifying a length, it defaults to one character. I'm pretty sure that you'll get this problem with char too, not just nchar.

~~Bonnie


>ok....I don't work with nChar much, but I would have thought you'd need to specify a length in your parameter.
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>I modified one of my simple SPs to receive the parameter as an nChar...if I didn't specify a width in the parameter list at the top of the SP, (e.g. nChar(10), it didn't work, but the minute I specified a width, it worked fine.
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>I don't know if that's the full answer, but give that a try.
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>Kevin