Of course it does. The recursive varient was presented (as a joke) on a "What's new in DEC-Rdb V6" seminar a "long" time ago... Jan-Erik. Ashley Roll wrote: >Sorry to spoil it for you, but it actually stands for Structured Query >Language (SQL)... -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.