> text + text will tend to capture ambiguous cases, > and thus possibly break queries that used to work (date + integer is a > case that comes to mind as being at risk). How to add + operator for strings so that date+integer expression is not broken ? > Refusing to deal with databases that can't handle the 14-year-old SQL > standard spelling of concatenation would be a better plan IMHO --- if > they can't get this right, it's unlikely that they are much better on > a lot of other points that will be harder to work around. I have huge amount of code written for this. Refusing is difficult. Andrus.