ACC2000: Memo Field Characters Are Displayed as Question Marks

After you enter thousands of characters of text into a Memo field, at a certain point, you notice that question marks appear, instead of text.

The Memo field is in a linked Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 table.

This problem has been fixed in the latest edition of the Jet Service Pack. For additional information about how to obtain the latest version of the Jet 4.0 database engine, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

1. Create a table in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 by running the following script in the SQL Server Query Analyzer:

      Use pubs
      go
   
      CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TABLE2] (
         [TABLEid] [int] NULL ,
         [ID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
         [BitField] [bit] NOT NULL ,
         [Data] [text] NULL 
      ) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
      GO
   					

2. In a new database in Access 2000, create a link to the SQL Server table that you created in Step 1, and select the ID field as the primary key.
3. Open the linked table in Datasheet view.
4. Type 1 in the TABLEid field.
5. Click in the Data field, and type or paste 3000 characters or more in the field.
6. Commit the record.
7. Expand the Data field, and then click in the field to create a blinking mouse pointer.
8. Press the DOWN ARROW key to scan through the text in the field.
9. After several seconds of pressing the DOWN ARROW key and moving through the field, note that question marks appear around the 2,000th character.