Thank you both for the tips. After doing some research (google), I believe I am working with a packed decimal field. I suspected this was the case when I FTP'd a text extract, and the data looked like a bunch of non-language characters. I found some stuff on EBCDIC, and this looks like what I have. Any ideas how to deal with this? I saw a post from 2007 here about converting it when imported from a text file, but nothing about how to deal with it when getting it VIA linked server.