Thanks Steve, much appreciated.

Shawn.

Thanks Phill. The "Cross-Database ownership chaining" was what I needed. Its working well.

Also with regards to the user access issue - you don't need to grant a user access to...

thanks guys, this was just what I was looking for. I knew it had to be there somewhere, just couldn't fiqure out what it was called.

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Remi, those were my initial thoughts but I figured that I had best check with those more knowledgable . Chris...