Answer by Jason Meckley for Adding carriage returns and line feeds into the CommandText of a TableAdapter for use in an ASP.Net GridView

the problem is the character's themselves. (browsers, html) do not translate char 10 & 13. Browsers do undertand HTML markup, so you can use <p>, <div>, or <br> tags to format the text.

I would do this in the HTML markup though, not the sql statement.