>>>>I guess, being a lazy person <g>, I was looking for a all-inclusive "<>" "exact" operator. That way I would not have to worry about SET EXACT OFF or ON and simply use "==" when comparing for equal and "<==> ((c) Copyright Dmitry Litvak <g>) for not equal.
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>>>Your all-inclusive operation is "NOT a == b"
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>>But Sergey said not to use it <g>.
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>I didn't say that. I said that it's preferable than flipping SET EXACT around which could cause hard to trace bugs in other parts of application..

Keeping SET EXACT ON makes clean distinction for Seek(), so I prefer it this way.