TIA?   what's this mean? (sorry, i'm still a newbie)

cool. thanks for your help. i'll create my own table and post once done for others.

cheers

yeah, this is all i can find ....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sys-o_4zll.asp

hey, thanks for the quick reply. i figured it was something like that as i saw the 24 was 8 + 16.

and sorry if this next question is a...