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>The suggested change would not help a bit and I don't think it makes any difference in your code execution. Basically, in compile time your insert will look exactly the same as you would type long string in the insert command...
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>Anyway, thanks for the ideas. Keep am coming <g>

In actual running, using DEFINE 's are a time saver when there are many complex variables.
We still have code here that benefits from using them. My supposition is that assigning the complex results to variables are more expensive than just doing complex operation 'in-line'