Sergey and Fabio,

Given that the source code is freely available and visible inside the master database I don't understand the unwillingness to use them. I've not looked at the Yukon beta but I'd say it's a safe bet that these MS extentions are there, and if they aren't they could be ported.

>>Never problem Sergey.
>>I like not to use not official document behaviours,
>>but at dev time some time must yield
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>I don't use them in applications either but don't see a problem in using them for DBA tasks.