Rudynator 9000 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 Hmm. Very clever. But this... now this is... I'm not sure. Genius or insanity? The jury's out... http://sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=10084 Paul-wiv-da-spinnin-bonce.