>Albert, do whatever you'd like. This mechanism is portable, does not require the passing of a binary data type, and does not require any specialized knowledge about the size of data values to process. I'm certain that you can come up with a better solution than I can - this one just happens to work and is accessible from any automation client.

The issue is space, the set of values can be 512 or more (256 commonly) with 2,592,000 rows.