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Originally Posted by gernblan (Post 139723)

Well yes but if the insert fails because of the field length, it doesn't get in at all.

Thus, the mobs not showing up later.

So the emu may not care in practice what the name is when reading it... but it sure does care when creating the record in the first place.

Hence changing it to varchar(50).

It does solve thr problem.

And no I do not want the names that long, but what else can I do without adding a bunch of extra (tedious) steps?

Agreed, I'm changing this column on PEQ.

Right, the emu is the one generating the hideously long names, not us. Maybe that random name generator needs a review? But the easy solution is to widen the field.

Thanks Cavedude. PEQdb is still my life blood. :)