> I, as well as many others, find that you have to put a suspend in any SP
> that returns a value, even for execute SP's.

I've never seen the problem when calling 'execute' just
when I write a procedure as an execute and wish to call
it with select. Do you have an example? If so please
send it to me off-line as I do not want this thead to
diverge into a non-architecture discussion.

Markus