I'm sorry to have to post a note here, but I can't seem to get around a problem I'm having. I've got a database that contains fields (not memo fields) that are very long strings and when I use RODBC, they get truncated... which is bad... I can verify that all of the string is in the database (visually), but can't figure out why strings over 600 characters seem to get truncated... I haven't been able to get around this and can't seem to find out more than a couple of emails from 2006 on the subject.