Further to Luc's excellent advice, I would add that you should avoid the death trap SELECT * FROM ... syntax. It's quick now but will come back and bite your head off in the future. Name the columns you want explicitly and query nothing else. Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett