>If it's something that's going to be done regularly, I'd look into >oracle's full text searches. (You're using oracle, right?)
I am. >If you want to be lazy I'd do select * from mytable in a cfquery, then >dump myquery.columnlist, loop through that and and build your like >statements, then use that to do the real query. I took the lazy approach and it worked quickly. I probably should have just had someone look through the data but I was trying to help. thanks as usual! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:211182 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54

