Recordsets in server side includes

I often find that when I am building websites that I have numerous recordsets that are common across many, if not all of the pages of the site. What I tend to do is create a template that has all of these recordsets in place before I build the site and often this works well.
If at some point down the line the client wants to make a change to the way that recordset works, I find I am having to do a find/change or manually update each page... this is a time consuming job, so I was wondering if it is at all possible to have recordsets in an external file like an SSI where I can make a change once, and then all pages that include that one file will be updated instantly.
Is this a practical way of working with recordsets? Is there any drawback in working this way with DW?
Thanks.
Mat

Hi Mat,
have you already worked with these things?
http://www.dmxzone.com/go?7072
http://www.extendstudio.com/documentation/fusioncharts-for-dw-developer-edition/documentat ion/tutorials/how-to-create-a-recordset-in-dreamweaver.html
http://www.google.de/#q=dreamweaver+recordset&hl=de&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei= TZysTMO_GsqUswaxlJCwBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQqwQwAg&fp=856 dde346dcb2651
Hans-G.

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