At 8:23 PM -0400 7/15/02, rudy wrote: > >as i said, the generation of test data with unions and cross joins is really >rather inventive, and very few people know about it > >http://sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=10064 Looking at the original question, can anyone tell me where the yak and the question, "Find the yak?" comes from? http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=8425 I'll give you a hint - It's a cookie in a software package that would be used by someone creative (or pretending to be). It's rather pricy, but a pro package that provides a fabulous value for what it does. ... Guesses? bob -- bob davis bob at bobdavis.org http://www.bobdavis.org/