Thanks for all the advice.

Can someone tell me if it is  possible to find out the character set that the SQL server was installed with if SQL isn't running then...

Hi Helen,

Thanks for your reply, the problem I have is that I cannot issue any kind of SQL statements to the database as I cannot get the SQL service to...

Have a look at the following MS knowledge base article, this suggests that you need to install the latest service pack to fix this but does give a workaround in...

On a SQL 7 box I get an error indicating overflow:

Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 2

The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type...

I also think the answer should have been B for this one. After answering with B and getting it supposedly wrong I did a little research, the article from SQLJunkies...