> Questions are:
> 
> 1) How large a value can you pass into a parameter value? For 
> example, could it be a 50K block of text and not kill the processor.

Sure, why not?
> 
> 2) If you were going to pass in certain types of text, I 
> assume you would have to use a method for escaping quotes, etc.

No, why? If it's a string, then it's restricted to characters permitted
by XML. But I would expect a large value normally to be structured, i.e.
to be XML, in which case you should parse the XML first and pass in the
document node.
> 
> Can someone elaborate on this for me so that I am clear of 
> any limitations in this regard.

Obviously limits will vary from one product to another.

Michael Kay


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