Straegen, I believe that you recieved the responses you did because your first few posts indicated that you believed that T-SQL was headed for the grave in it's entirety and rightfully so.  In the lats post you somehwat contreadicted your early posts by stating

'I agree queries will still be run, but that is what they will be... queries'

I'm not so sure that the rest of us understand exactly what your stance is, I know I don't and maybe it's just me.  In one post you say that it's time for T-SQL to head towards the grave and in another you state that it will still be used for queries.  So what exactly is your stance on this issue? Are you saying that it's time for T-SQL to disappear from the face of the earth or are you saying that it's time for T-SQL to be used strinctly for working directly with relational data?

Thanks

Ed