Sorry, I should have mentioned, I have a DTS package that drops and re-creates the machinestable, so if I have a FK constraint, won't I get an error when running...

Yih-yoon Lee, You sound like you are where I was a few months ago. I learned a lot from forums-posting and reading, this one and others. Everyone is usually very...

"Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML" & "Guru's guide to T-SQL" both by Ken Henderson. Both have helped me out in many a situation.