Just drawing a bow at a venture, but is it possible to have a SET or ENUM dynamically linked to a table so that valid elements for the SET/ENUM are composed from the rows in another table? E.g. ALTER TABLEpurchase MODIFY products_bought SET( SELECT * FROM products.name) I guess not, but just wanted to check. sql sql sql. dumb email filter. -- David Hugh-Jones iDomainCart --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php