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To: Eagle who wrote (1836)	7/8/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: SI Brad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32936

> Ahhhhhhh! That is probably the problem. It did accept 44 > entries...it was the 45th that gave the error message. It will be expanded significantly in a few months when we upgrade to MSFT SQL Server 7.0. It's a pretty silly limitation. I'm parsing your string of ticker symbols on the database side, and our database (SQL Server 6.5) only supports strings of 255 characters. SQL Server 7.0 will support 8000 characters (about 1500 ticker symbols...but we'll probably cut it off at 100). There are other ways to work around the problem, but its hard to justify the programming effort when it will be fixed automatically in a few months. I appreciate your patience!