I know have stripped this to find the problem. I now get [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid column name '%a%'. error.
Any more ideas? Thanks Allan ----------------------------------------------- CREATE PROC GetMessages2 @searchtext varchar (100) AS DECLARE @query varchar(1000) SET @query = 'SELECT * FROM Messages' SET @query = @query + ' WHERE 1=1' IF @searchtext <> '' SET @query = @query + ' AND Message LIKE "' + '%' + @searchtext + '%"' EXEC(@query) GO
