Mr. Denny,

You never have to apologize for your posts being too long. For me, they always seem succinct, easy to assimilate, and they simplify any subject you post about.

I appreciate you devoting your time and energy to produce them. They are always worth my time to read them.

LTC

The N is used to tell SQL Server that the data being sent in is unicode. Since when you create tables you are not limited to the latin character set that we use in the English language the sample code is setup to include to allow for these other characters. If for example you had created the table using russian characters as the table name you need need to put the N in front of the string.

When dealing with latin characters the N is usually optional, but it is better to put it in.

In the above command, why do you put “N” right after the equal sign? It ran it with and without it, gave me the same results.

Thanks…