heh, i actually use a slightly more advanced text editor cause it allows for syntax colorization. But the queries im writing im doing in the query analyzer for the database as its basically colorized notepad and i can just click a button to test it.

What i meant by resource though was information on more sophisticated calls i can do to pull out exactly the information i want/need.

I basically need to pull out some fairly specific information from multiple tables and would really prefer not to have to do multiple passes over the database to get the information i need as it makes printing it out harder and id have to rewrite parts of my code

-Darth Simon