> As a side note: I recently came across an interesting situation that
> tried to blow my IB server. I was using a select that contained

Was the stored procedure recursive in any way? Perhaps you need to move to
an iterative model so that you don't blow some sort of a virtual call stack
that InterBase may be using to process your dataset.

Just a thought.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com