Well exactly - and a magnificent API it is. Perhaps my intent wasn't clear - I posted that specifically to discourage self-parsing of the SQL when such marvelous API's exist. As an aside... The reason why I know the trouble of doing it the other way, is that when I started doing work on said project, that was now more than 10 years ago (how time flies!) and at the time, this API was very much not available yet (at least, I believe it wasn't, right? - else I'm just a masochist). :)