We have a requirement for a system that will record answers to more than one survey. Each survey will consist of a number of questions with responses that can be multiple choice (eg pick up to 3 preferences from 8) text numeric - single answer How would people go one question table, one wide response table one question table, multiple response tables varying on type of response some other construct. This is an internal discussion that we are having here that interests me (and I do have a preference) and I'd be interested to see what folk think. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l