Philippe -

While I would recommend you start a separate thread on the specifics of your process, I would imagine that this technique might be useable in your scenario. Hard to tell for sure, but it's certainly one way to step away from some loops and cursors (although to be fair - the MS gear-heads that blog on this call this technique the "inner loop" process, since you're flying through each row in sequence, albeit VERY quickly).

Jeff is probably going to give me the evil eye on that one....:)