Besides buying books, there are good tutorials available from the big database makers - Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, MySQL and so on, and not to forget the various university resources. Why not visit them. OR, google for then such as [^]

The key advantage that separating the skillset information out to an Employee_Skillset table is that you could store much more information, make it easier to retrieve and have greater control over the data entry. You could have columns to cover not just the skill but the level and any qualifications held. It is perfectly possible to store and retrieve this data from free-text columns but you have a greater chance of simple things like spelling mistakes causing incorrect query results. Ian

all you have to is put datagrid.databind(); in the code that handles the event for your search button. how vital enterprise application are for proactive organizations leveraging collective synergy to think outside the box and formulate their key objectives into a win-win game plan with a quality-driven approach that focuses on empowering key players to drive-up their core competencies and increase expectations with an all-around initiative to drive up the bottom-line. But of course, that's all a "high level" overview of things --thedailywtf 3/21/06