Thanks for the suggestion, Steve.  I'll add it to my list of things to investigate.  

Sherrie

Thanks,I'll take a look at the guide, this is my first post.  I just starting to move into the SQL Server world from Oracle. 

Sherrie

That's what I thought, but hoping I was missing something.  

Thank you for the insights!

Sherrie

How do I put that in the insert statement, sort of like it's a function (but it's not really).  This isn't it:

DECLARE @objectid as INT
declare...