Hi Interesting aticle.I think the real problem is rarely used or just referenced procs. Eg a report run once a year - by the company MD summing up the previous years' perfomance - or possibly the monthly equivalent once again run by the CEO with a notoriously short fuse. I suspect that running profiler for a month would produce a file large enough to break Excel. Just a thought from an agency and temp staffing environment http://www.ava.co.uk