I did try the [ ] but still got errors..I'll see if I can work it out

Thanks

Yes I got it to work for that stupid named table. The problem now is this is selecting tables within a cursor and not all of them have stupid names. 

yeah I did that (forgot to copy that in my earlier reply). I got a whole bunch of other errors :

Server: Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 1

Unclosed quotation...

Excellent. That is just what I wanted. Thankyou very much

NB. On one of my servers the log file was called RSMSI1.log - possibly the log file name gets incremented with...

Ruud, we think type 3 is an image

Thank you Bill.  That worked like a dream although I am not sure why I still couldn't modify them in the Define Column