Actually no, the server I tested from was (RC, SP1, SP2) on 2000 and (RC, SP1, SP2, SP3) with SQL 7. The problem actually steams form the column order stored in the syscolumns table and not the string lenght compared to the index which was directly related to SQL 2000 and not 7.

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