> Of course one could put this in a nice stored procedure as well, but
> I'll leave that as an exercise for the user :-).

A "Stored Function" would be even more nice, but hey, they don't
exist yet ;-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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