Heh, I'm probably 15 years behind then :) . Thank you for the reply :) I strongly dislike writing "strings with sql" inside my code, though I do use parametriz

Heh, I'm probably 15 years behind then :) . Thank you for the reply :) I strongly dislike writing "strings with sql" inside my code, though I do use parametrized queries these days. I do appreciate freedom from DBAs as a feature :) but I have access to my stored procedures these days (though I don't know for how much longer). I work for an insurance company with an awful legacy database structure, with mnemotechnic table names like S0001... to S99999, and disregard for naming conventions or even normalization sometimes. It's not making me a better developer :( unless learning by bad examples counts.