Sorry, guess I should have prefaced it by saying I am writing the query in Powerbuilder 12.5. I am retrieving a file to write to the database for batch processing to a webservice and the zip file would allow us to control table size from growing exponentially. the zip file can contain anywhere from 1 to 50,000 rows of data. I am trying to write an inline insert and then write an inline retrieve of te zip file to then unzip the results for viewing results of the webservice response file. Visual Basic is a little different, but I will check to see if I can adapt to my efforts. Thanks!