Thanks once again for a detailed reply. I have a slightly different problem however. I have queried a SQL Server table converted to XML, sent it to the Client, updated it, brought it back to the server as an XMLUpdateGram and now while I am on the server I want to update the SQL Server Table with the XMLupdategram. ie I want a DLL on the server to be doing the update as it subsequently needs to do some computations on the server.