Hi, Achilleus, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: [schema trickery] > Why do you think its ugly after all? It is not ugly to split such things via schemas per se, but it is ugly to use this schema trick together with a bunch of views, rules and triggers to "upgrade" a legacy single-deployment application into a multi-deployment application with some limited cooperation / data sharing. Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org