• ok just checking the basics here;

    I'm assuming you are reviewing the code in SSMS? by default, to save memory, SSMS limits results to the first 256 characters...have you already changed this to show the first 8K (if the command is larger than 8K, you need to use something else...SSMS will not show more than 8K, even if the string is longer:)

    Lowell


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