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  • I am using a seperate table to hold all the localized value for each table and  lauguages. The table is something like:

    LocaleID, SourceTableName, SourceField, SourcePKValue, Text

    e.g.

    'en-US',   'dbo.Author', 'Name','5','Rob'

    In the stored procedure where localized value is reuqired to return, use the following function to retrive the value:

    dbo.fn_GetLocalizedName (LocaleID,SourceTableName,SourceField,SourcePKValue)

    This method can support different languages without changing the code.