Jeff,

Not putting that back in the original table (mines not employee), I'm just maintaining the mapping in your hierarchy table. My thought is to make your stored procedure more generic, so I can simply pass in the table name, Id/ParentId and the sort field(s) and use dynamic SQL to create a the sorted mapping table. That would then update the rgt/lft extends (your bowers) back into the original table. That way the less knowledgeable developers could implement without having to modify the stored procedure. At least that's my thought, haven't implemented it yet. Most of our hierarchies are in the under 100k row range, most under 10k. We do a lot of hierarchies, product, geo, object, person, etc. This update has provided some great brain food.:-D

Thanks again,

Matthew