>I undersatand what you do and why, I just want to make sure that people realize that there is no right or wrong setting for SET EXACT just preferences. For the same reasons you state I prefer SET EXACT to be OFF all the time because then I don't have to find ways to do partial matching and I know that I have to pad seeks and use == to get exact matches. It is all just what a persons prefers to deal with.

EXACTly! :)