> Rather than mess up your nice database that up to this point > seems to be working fine for you, why not just sort the > output on the client side, or rather, let them sort the > columns the way they want: > > http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/sorttable/ > > As long as your display output is a table.... It's not, it's an online form. (All my tabular report screens are indeed sortable by the user.) joel