>>Thanks especially to Jim for his brief lecture in computer basics - I must remember to ensure that any integers I store use only 1's & 0's - but does that restriction apply to other data types too ? (I'm only a beginner at relational database design - I have been programming for close to 20 years)
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>All the computer uses is 1s and 0s since everything insdie is handled as binary data. My comment was a joke :-)

Sorry, I was joking too.
I was serious about the thanks for the comments though.

Paul