First...think i got what i need for that last two parts ( talking to a guy from the university or Waterloo ).

second. the samle that you gave was a parcial for the easy part of that question. I need be able to get all theh operations in comma delimited form, but he harder part is if there is a chanage to the data in the comma delimited cursor, it need to go back and update the information in origonal table for ( in this case ) those 3 operations ( there will be many other fields in the comma delimited cursor )

- jer