Thought I solved the problem, but not so... Worked fine when I updated the memo field with the TPLT_DES field that came from a text box. Bombs when I update the memo field with the contents of the textarea field. Hence ODBC works fine. Thus, the format or datatype or ??? of the textarea field is somehow different than the text box field contents -- hence will not work with the update command. Any help/advice welcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists

