Hello Clay,

CS> << Is there a domain involved?>>

CS> No, just a straight VarChar(7). There is obviously a constraint being
CS> imposed on it from somewhere, I just can't figure out who the string
CS> dictator is. If I find him, it will be off to the gallows, or perhaps the
CS> guillotine. Or perhaps I will simply remove the constraint using more
CS> conventional methods.
Probably, NOT NULL constraint: FIB+ casts empty strings to NULLs by
default as I remember (it's FIB+ string field property).


HTH
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Pavel Menshchikov
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