• Maybe that's the difference... I'm running SQL Sever 2000 Enterprise Edition with SP4.  Just kidding... I get the same execution plans on an SP3a box as well.  I don't know what the difference is because I havn't altered Northwind on either of mine either.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)