Hi Please could you advise. I have a table with a timestamp column and would like to use his to calculate the age of the record . how would i go about this... I would also like to exicute a mysql stament that pasess the tables and removes fields older than say 72 hours. how would i go about this . ? many thanks -- Gregory Machin greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx gregory.machin@xxxxxxxxx www.linuxpro.co.za www.exponent.co.za Web Hosting Solutions Scalable Linux Solutions www.iberry.info (support and admin) +27 72 524 8096