>I'm disappointed to see it's not a datasession problem

me too! This is getting very irritating! Its so damn basic! I have this growing fear that I'm going to discover that its really something stupid on my part (like forgetting to have a table open - it aint that but you know what I mean!)

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>For sum performance gain would be for you do it in one pass. IMHO I would prefer SQL if not buffered

explain svp - how would this work. What sort of code are we talking about?

thanks

Harry