Erik's example above is a good way of making things typesafe. Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

Thank you all, it helped me really much :) :)

Yes, for those reasons, plus performance in a loop: If you concatenate SQL strings to insert a million such rows the server has to prepare a million SQL statements, but by using a parameterized statement the server prepares the statement once and uses the cached execution plan a million times (at least in theory).

What type of items are you adding to your split button, and what value so you expect or want to get from them? Dave BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia) Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)