>Does anybody know if there is a down side to calling an API declare statement more that once?
Well, of course you would have the slight time required to execute the DECLARE statement. For this reason alone, I would recommend putting all DECLARE statements in your startup program, where they are invoked only once.
I don't know if there is any other problem.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
