> BTW: Unless MySQL has fixed table level locking you DO NOT want to use > MySQL for financial applications. Table level locking will KILL you even > in a small environment. As any time your run complex reports you in > essence will be locking out your data entry team. Performance will be > horrible unless you do some replication scheme to make a reporting > 'server'. There are a number of table types that MySQL has recently picked up that support transactions, rowlevel locking, replication... etc..etc... Just looks for the berkeley DB, or the gemini table types. GOOD STUFF!!! Brian Cluff