Thank you Neil for kindly taking the time to assist.

I set ANSI ON and replaced all "==" with "=" within the SELECT - SQL statement.

Unfortunately there was no change.

Actually I find this consistent with empirical results and any sense I have gleaned from documentation over the years.

If you have knowledge of where rigorous use of the "==" equality operator is problimatic I'd sure appreciate your insight.

Again, thanks for your help.

Spence