http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Programming, Database Design, Rants posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Your database design should be impervious to this documented behavior of the ADO delete method. Be one of the first five members to give a compelling reason why not, and take a dollar from starving columnist Sean Burke. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basics/noprimarykey/224/2001/05/21http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basics/noprimarykey/224/