Jack,

You are right in stating that it would be something that people could run into, but then again you would have all of the pieces there to deal with it better. Fortunately, I only get to deal with 30 page stored procedures all written in dynamic SQL...:sick: Do they suck, oh yeah, but it is our responsibility to teach those that do not know what type of things are acceptable and what are not. This could have been some old legacy code that was left over from the stone age, at which case it is something to deal with and troubleshoot, but then again not all of the pieces were there. I could have guessed....then again we all know what assumptions are like. Thanks for the response. The question should have had more details to keep the user from making assumptions. I guess also that I should not be defending my bitching anymore, the question was poorly put together, certainly a possible real world scenario, those that benefit should enjoy.

Dex