No, unfortunately it does not. The way this is going, I may just have to have another sql statement before this on that grabs all students that are not inactive and continue with the result table.

Thanks for the help.
Beth
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>Beth,
>Considering "inactive" casing is right in your code, might it be that returned rows with "INACTIVE" are something like [whitespace or nonprintablechar]+"INACTIVE"?
>(or with set ansi on after INACTIVE has chars that's not a space).
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>Does

!(ltrim(stu.enrollment_status) == 'INACTIVE')

help?
>Cetin