Great article, James. Like you, I'm all about automating things to be able to focus my time on the fun stuff:-). A few years ago I wrote a VB.NET program that queries the SYSOBJECTS, etc. tables to get the tables, fields, and field types to be able to automatically generate a script for select, update, insert, and delete stored procedures--all of which I incorporated in a program that writes VB.NET code. Nice to see that one can use SQL to write SQL as well:-).