GREAT ARTICLE...

Alot of learning points in it...

My First thought, I would have gone for cursors to solve the issue. Secondly, I would certainly NOT go for the conversions as used in the article (who cares about bit and bytes nowdays...). But one MUST know the way to accomplish the task using the limited and KNOWN resources whic makes the solution in the article THE BEST in all aspects...

BRAVO...

Atif Sheikh