>I got not so much a question as a solicitation of an opinion, if you don't mind. What would you think of returning BINTOC(lnNewKey)? I understand that there are advantages in using characters in this sort of situation. Any disadvantages?
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George,

Mac Rubel's benchmarking has shown that integers are the fastest data type you can have. Since the PK is meaningless I just leave it at interger and get on with it.