Thnx Sergey: Had a feeling you might know an answer <g> I almost posted the question directly to you.

Anyway, I searched BOL before I posted the query. Have to admit that I could not find any specifics about changing the default collation sequence for an Instance. Can you possibly be more specific as to where, under what heading or page reference, etc., in BOL you found this info? Thnx. /psb