Agree that presentation software is great for presenting end results data, but in some instances you want to have pre-filtered the results from your database via the underlying SQL. This was why I needed the conversion in the SQL, as I had to filter my table to get just a few rows out of a much larger table, and just present these few rows by the presentation software. I believe doing the filtering in the SQL on the server to be a lot quicker than passing the whole table back to the presentation software to filter it there. Thanks for the feedback.