Thanks for the input, Peter. I almost added yesterday, but the whole thing is kind of off topic, that yes, these are DTS2000 imports I'm rebuilding, and the conversion...

I'm not using excel at all, just copying data from a 4D database to a sqlserver database, and on previous versions of server, the conversion from a unicode format into...

Running into this myself, and I'd like to see the KB on this 'bug', too!

These errors don't occur importing same tables/datatypes to same tables/datatypes on previous sql server versions. ...