Perfecto!  I did not realise that a string + a null equals a null.  But now I do!

Thank you both!

Thankyou, that's great!

Please please does anyone know anything about the above topic.  for example today I have a process which has a status of rollback and a wait time of 15.  What...

Thanks very much for that.  Also, is there any reason why writing a DTS package to export the data from table to a text file is not a good idea? ...