>>SQL 2000 has all of the "standard" data types and a couple of "oddities" (CURSOR and TABLE) but nothing like what you describe. It does have the ability to create user-defined functions, which can serve as default values for columns - maybe that was what they were thinking of?
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>In addition, you can use them as part of any SQL statement (Insert, Update, Delete and Select) as a column expression or part of the WHERE clause.
Yep. There's a lot of power in them thar UDF's...
Dan LeClair
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