Thanks, WSquared, for your suggestion.  And thanks to everyone else for the ideas! 

Let me throw an question out there to anyone else who has had to migrate from Oracle to SQL Server -- does it seem to you that SQL Server is not as mature a product, at least as far as the SQL language extensions go?  I'm not trying to start a religious war here, but I have already run into several features that SQL-Plus or PL-SQL has that T-SQL does not have.  Some examples are the Oracle TRANSLATE function,  the ACCEPT statement (i.e. the ability to get user input), and the SPOOL statement.   Maybe my exposure to T-SQL is still too limited to make a fair assessment, but so far my impression of the language itself hasn't been that positive.  (I do like the Query Analyzer environment, though).

Any thoughts?

Thanks again,

Jose'