>Erik, I Agree
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>In a similar vein though, I have a boss who wishes to run his own adhoc queries and reports, but would never be able to do the joins necessary to accomplish this, thus he requires the data not to be normalized :-)
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>Bob
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LOL! I have that problem, too. In that case you may want to define user friendly views that have some of the common joins dona already, and essentially present the boss with a 'fake' denormalized data set.

Jim