"...may be widely deployed to those people that need protection from themselves the most: executives and sales people."

There, fixed that for you.

Sushila,

That's really kind of you - thanks.  It's sure to speed me up.  I'll be trying it out next week.  If you've got the time/inclination to help me further (no...

Thanks for that.  I'll give it a go.  My oracle experience suggested I needed a function.

But I've read that in SQL Server you can't call a stored procedure from a function (or at least one that does a INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE anyway).  I think I need to...