Hi all, I can see the basic need for a table prefix in a case where you may use one mysql database for several projects at once so as to distinguish tables per project like... Project 1 mysales_contacts mysales_invoices etc and jobs_contacts jobs_invoices however I was told a long time ago to use a prefix "tbl_" like tbl_Mytable but I don't really see much need for this by itself ... Am I missing something? -- Thanks, Dave - DealTek dealtek@xxxxxxxxx [db-3]