Roy

> OK - fuller version.

Now I got it.

I didn't see that your post was an answer to Tim's reply - I thought it
was for me

Uli

Roy,

<< Out of interest could you do something like
ParamByName('Contents').AsString := ' X''01F21028''; >>

The problem is the data type of the parameter.  If you use AsString, you
will end setting the data type to a string.  What you need is the
TParam.AsBlob property, and you cannot format the binary data as an SQL hex
string constant.  A parameter expects the data in its "raw" binary format,
not formatted as a constant.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com