Amazing what one ends up taking for granted. Because we develop B2B web sites where we can specify the requirements for the client browsers, the option of not running JavaScript is not even dreamt about. But I can see how for your needs client side JavaScript is not a solution.

I will certainly keep a note of your solution, but for the time being I think we shall stick with ours.

But I agree that shifting logic to the database is good whenever it can be done.

As for the appreciation, I have been preaching stored procedures to the point that our ASP guy thinks I'm just doing it to get him out of the database (....which I am ) .