Peter, There is a signifigant level of structural movement. Not as frequent as read access but enough to be a consideration.
I looked at the treemanager.cfc Nando mentioned and your entry. Adding left/right columns sounds like a good a possibility. I'm going to run some tests. Something that could coexist with the adjacency model would really make this task a lot simpler. It would also open up the possibility of converting to nested sets if that turns out to be a better fit. Thanks guys. By the way, today at least .. I wholeheartedly agree with the comment "Trees and hierarchical databases are a match made in hell :)" Janet -- --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]