At 22:17 2001-10-11 +1000, you wrote:

>Sure, SQL Server stored procedures are COOL. As long as they syntax-check
>OK, they get written out in interpreter code and the next user can invoke
>them straight away. They get precompiled "just-in-time" and any data
>integrity or validation errors and
> logic bugs will present themselves to the user for "in-line QA".
>
>No thanks.

Can't comment on this as I just don't know. I do agree that SQL's SP
syntax is the most horrible I have seen to date, whereas IB's is very clean
and easy to use/understand. All in all, I do not want to move away from IB,
but there are a couple of big frustrations. Caught between a rock and a
hard place....