u guys are real quick - tnx

Jens, its not exactly what i want coz a customer may not be a member of
a group;

Jim u r GREAT, this will really speed up my work, my queris have a lot
of additional joins and by now i had to copy/paste them and make every
change twice

where current of cursorName
Really really slow cursor
Problem copying data from column in same table
reverse like?
Can't we use variables in OPENQUERY, FREETEXT("@searchstring")?