Hi Mike - thanks for your suggestions.
>I don't quite understand why you're explicitly testing for the FK? DRI will inform you if you try to violate RI. And then there's the performance issues of using Dynamic SQL; as far as SQL Server is concerned, Dynamic is the same as an ad-hoc query.
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It's a requirement of the system: we have to alert the user as to which tables have an FK reference before attempting a delete.
Dan LeClair
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