Thank you so much, wasted an entire day on this. It's midnight here atm and only just come across this and it worked first time with version 11 of Adobe...

it turned out to be another process I missed later in the code opening and re-writing the files changing the codepage as they went. The -c and -CRAW were the...

thanks again, ramifications understood which is why i chose raw, i don't want any translation to occur. days gone by i had tried other codepages and widechar/unicode to no avail...

thanks for reply but I've tried them all. if it was that parameter it wouldn't work from the command window but it does.

You get better clustering options, windows standard only supports a 2 node cluster, windows enterprise can support many more nodes which is useful for stretching a cluster to a fail-over...

/* setup */

CREATE TABLE X (

HistoryID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,

ObjID INT NOT NULL,

Date1 DATETIME,

Date2 DATETIME,

Info1 CHAR(400),

Info2...