>> I promise I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt ;) Do you then use >> your serial id as your foreign key in other tables, or the >> firstname/lastname primary key? > > Now that is a good question. I would use the id, but that is not > technically proper :). But firstname/lastname is *NOT* a primary key. Merely calling it one in the db schema does not make it so. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice