Matthew and Isaac have provided you with two excellent workarounds. I just have one thing to add.
The "where pk=fk" syntax doesn't produce an inner join in Access. Instead use "from issues i inner join users u on i.owner = u.name". Too bad you have to go thru all of this...a normalized database schema would've prevented this problem...which you probably haven't seen the last of... :) ~Dina ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4