--- In [email protected], "Doug McCune" <d...@...> wrote: > > But doing some pretty simple calculations based on data type is easy. For > example, if you know a field is a date and you want to display the full date > and time string, you know how wide that needs to be. Or if a field is a > phone number, etc. Unknown strings present problems, but maybe just some > simple stuff would be better than nothing at all?
You could also run a separate request to get the longest value for each field in the recordset.

