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Author  Topic  martinc Starting Member 1 Post Posted - 2010-04-19 : 21:52:11 After running a SQL statement the error was captured by some java process. The error 'General cryptographic failure' gives no clues other than the SQL. Anyway, on further investigation it seems it was relating to a function which itself uses a function which uses VBScript.RegExp. Not sure if that's all by the by, but when running the query in SQL Studio no error was shown, just a NULL value. There were a lot of tests done but once rebooted all was fine. I am interested to know what kind of things MAY cause this error because it may help investigate what caused it to happen and prevent it happening again, even if it's a scheduled reboot. Thanks