>I've used both the new access and assign methods numerous times and found it to be extremely powerful. I'm just curious what others are doing that may be interesting to us all?

Hi Robert,

I've got a number of tables I have to deal with where I have no control over the design. In short, it's a less than ideal situation. I'm working on a class that generates _Access and _Assign methods for transferring data from these into my tables for manipulation and back again. The most interesting (and I think most powerful) thing is that you create a data object (something like you would with SCATTER...NAME objname), if you GATHER from that objname, the _Access methods fire. This will allow me to encapsulate the data translation procedure. While I (admittedly) haven't completed overcoming some of the hurdles, I think this usage holds promise in this area.