Bill,

I restored the database and site files and then proceeded to perform the upgrade again.  Again,m the Telerik dlls were not included, however, I corrected the issue, as you had suggested.

However, another strange thing happened, for every page, i receive a resource note fount error in that the page is just localhost/.aspx.

I reviewed the errors and yest, there was an error with the 06.02.01 SQL Provider.  The following is the error from the resource log;

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Level', table 'dotnetnukevwc.dbo.Tabs'; column does not allow nulls. UPDATE fails.
The statement has been terminated.
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection. (SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection. (SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
   at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteADOScript(String SQL)
   at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions)



WITH RecursiveTabs (TabID, Level, TabPath)
    AS    
    (
        SELECT
            TabID,
            0 AS Level,
            CAST('//' + dbo.RemoveStringCharacters(TabName, '&? ./''-#') AS NVARCHAR(255)) AS TabPath
        FROM dbo.Tabs
        WHERE ParentId IS Null
      
        UNION ALL
      
        SELECT
            T.TabID,
            R.Level + 1,
            CAST(R.TabPath + '//' + dbo.RemoveStringCharacters(TabName, '&? ./''-#') AS NVARCHAR(255))
        FROM dbo.Tabs T
        INNER JOIN RecursiveTabs R ON T.ParentId = R.TabID
    )
    
    UPDATE dbo.Tabs SET Level = R.LEVEL, TabPath = R.TabPath
    FROM dbo.Tabs T
    LEFT JOIN RecursiveTabs R ON R.TabID = T.tabID 

Looking at the original databse table, there are no entries for the level column that are NULL.  However, attempting to run the update area for the Tabs table manually, I noticed that there was an error in the the 'RemoveStringCharacters function or SP is not in my database.

From this error, I would assume that the "RemoveStringCharacters" function was omitted from the file.

As I do not have an issue with the tab displays or use with DNN 5.1.6, can I just delete the RecursiveTabs procedure?