Okay I seem to be missing something here, the query seems to fail at the SET command. May seem like a silly question but I am failing to also see where the query gets inputted into all this. Can some one please help...the description of the script sounds like a perfect fit for what I am trying to do. I have 3 sql scripts that I have to run in order to get a output which I copy paste into txt file. This script sounds like it would eliminate that problem.