hey, there's a full featured, open-source db, made available from SAP. since sap has software running on this database base that powers the ERP systems of the world's largest companies, it has a lot of powerful, advanced, reliable features. you can get free cd's of the database from there web site at www.sapdb.org pretty cool, has live replication, realtime memory optimization, triggers, transactions, sub selects, and is fully to scalable. poor oracle. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php