I have solved this problem already. Thanks. ;) Regards, Jo

Have the second update statement for the next table with the appropriate condition. Encapsulate the Update statements in a TRANSACTION block so that if an error occurs in one update, the data integrity is preserved. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips Regional Weblog (in Tamil) :: Voicing for the Society Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the ready cash. USE IT.

this is the coding for the link button which is inside the gridview. I will need to retrieve the value from the link button in order to update my database.