Martin, Thanks for your kind words to the new guy. I really don't understand why others don't simply refrain from responding rather than burn bandwidth with their rants of "RTFM" or or "Off Topic - go somewhere else". I really appreciate all the posts folks make as I tend to learn something, even if the content is unexpected. > I think (hope) that Rene was just trying to emphasize that while this is > a php mailing list - it is focused on databases. An array full of 0's > and 1's - while certainly data - hardly constitutes that. <<snip>> David Giragosian, Psy.D. Database Developer and Programmer MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas 713-792-7898