Thanks to Erik for this impressive example... I suppose it's in VB, but I cannot tell as I am not at all familiar with MS script languages.

Still, the example...

NO, I'm accessing SQLServer 2000 either 'directly', that is with the Query Analyser (for instance) or oder such front ends, or with php/ODBC.

Still, I'm curious to see your solution. Thanks...

I agree about the VB bit...

But even when using plain-vanilla t-sql the problem is still the same: using readtext I can extract a text field from a table but not...