> Ok, great. And right now I've discovered another unconvenient limitation for Table validation rule - it seems like 255 char limit. And I even have "Fatal

You can insert a function call... The function can reside in the Stored Procs field in the .DBC. If you need to poke the code in programatically there is a command to do that. Don't remember it off hand. Then you can comile database.

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