THANKS! That works. The character is successfully inserted. Now, I have to see what I have to do to the Stored Procedure to make that work. ...

When I use:

update order_header set shipname1 = N '??'

where orderno = '13153461'

I get the following error message:

Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1

Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '??'.

update order_header set shipname1 ='??'

where orderno = '13153461'

David

Yes, the Data Type for the fields in question has been changed to nvarchar. I have also been able to successfully paste the Japanese characters into the DB from...