Steve Jones said,

"XML doesn't work everywhere, and I'm not sure I think that's the answer."

Where does XML not work?

Please explain, cause XML has worked well on several projects that...

I remember that and you are correct.

I belive that 8060 bytes was selected as a performance measure becuase of the default disk block size and I/O for read/writes to disk.

Similar...

This has already been resolved.

If you want to work with strings greater than 8K then declare them as XML or TEXT.

In Access use a Note data type.

a Varchar is by...

Steve,

Let me start by stating that most days your posts are informative, interesting, and and seem to contain facts learned in the real world. What happend?!

There are many encryption...

"Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '0,.0' to data type int."

No SQL product that I could find returned "error converting to a numeric" when trying to convert a varchar...

You say it works.

In what way?

What are the featrues specific to SQL Server Enterprise Edition that you have tested as working localy and from remote connections?

Are you able to set...

I am certain that you can "Crowbar" install or Force install almost any M$ product on any matching (32bit or 64bit) version of any Windows OS.

What everyone is trying to...

The errors look to me like a default instance of SQL server was installed, and then a named instance was installed, then you started seeing these isues when you were...

I have seen this issue with any code, and any variation of Oracle Versus SQL ever since the first Java interface for ODBC drivers was released.

It can be done...

Have fun in your new ventures,

JR

I have been working with enterprise level SQL servers large enough to be considered super computers some even paralell processing for about ten years.

I have yet to see the hardware,...

You said you are writing the Backup file to the "Data drive".

I am guessing that your Recovery Model is set to Full.

This is what I have done/would do in your...