Not really, your's should be automatically generated by a query tool. So you don't care about the query text but its graphical representation. Just have a look at products like Business Object ou DataStage and you will see what I mean ;)

Your VS2005 defaults to unicode. "%d" is of type char but CString.Format needs a unicode format string. you can modify your code as following : cs24.format(L"%d",i_Random); or cs24.format(TEXT("%d"),i_Random); however please pay attention that this may not be the only place in your code you have to check against unicode (wchar_t) compatibility. cheers. Mohammad