Thanks for the pointers! I will try these both tonight.

Attempting to do this in CLR or .NET shouldn't be too difficult.

This is my first attempt to encode / decode to embedded objects in anything prior to SQL 2005. I guess I've gotten spoiled by varbinary(max) data type and BulkColumn FROM OPENROWSET, etc.

I'll let you know in the next day or so whether I have any success.

Thanks,

Andre Ranieri