Warren Peace (11/2/2007)
I got two different results. The first returned 75 and the other returned 150. I double checked it by writing a vbscript to get the count of each record length and 75 was correct.Thanks everyone.
You probably have a nvarchar column? the len function returns the storage space of the data which is 2 bytes per character. The datalength function returns the number of characters in the data. Hence the reason you got 150 with len and 75 with datalength.
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