• I split them to octets (using PARSENAME) stored as TINYINT and, like someone suggested, use a calculated column to reassemble them just to make life a little easier. The suggestion of binary storage is fine but the TINYINT method doesn't take any additional storage and humans seem to like it better. 😉 Subnet masking won't be a problem, either.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)