> Nice grammar. :-) done on purpose as a colloquialism ;o) <tip type="mysql union statements"> prior to release 4, mysql did not support the standard sql UNION operator, so you needed a good hack[1] Writing UNION statements in MySQL 3.x by Michael Bailey http://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php?show=33&page=1 [1] http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack.html </tip>