Memo field problem in CR 8.5

Hi. I'm having a problem with displaying the contents of a memo field in CR8.5 when reading from SQL Server 2005 (this doesn't happen with SQL Server 2000). The memo field just doesn't display. It is in a subreport. The field and the subreport are enabled to grow. Like I said, this works fine when reading from SQL 2000, but not 2005.
Help?
Thanks. Help is ALWAYS appreciated.

Hi John,
How are you connecting your DB? If it's ODBC then try using OLE DB etc.
What happens if you create a new report, can you see the memo data?
CR 8.5 is 10 years old so at the time MS 2005 was not out so not sure if there are issues with it or not.
Check the field type and length in 2005, CR 8.5 has a limit of 65,000 characters for memo fields, if upgrading changed that size CR will have problems.
You could try downloading all of the patches for 8.5 and see if that works.
Thank you
Don

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informa
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- here is what should be next
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