Gail and Lynn,

Thanks for your advice. Today, I went and created a test table with one ntext column and was able to insert 38 million characters ... it took 4 minutes for the insert, but it did it. I was surprised.

Would either of you know what BOL is talking about when it says that for SS2K, the max row length is 8060 bytes? I clearly saw that by using ntext, I could go way beyond that.

Thanks,

Tom