GilaMonster (11/2/2010)

8000 characters for a date? I could store an entire calendar...

Even a convert will fail if someone has put non-date data in your column. You should probably do an ISDate() check on the column to weed out non date values...

Well, if he didn't want to hear the answer, he shouldn't...

Wayne,

When I removed the double-quotes at the beginning and end of your create table statement, I was able to create the Excel spreadsheet with no problems. However, it gave me...

Early voting

Thanks for the link, George. I'll check it out.

I should have sent Grant some of my eyeballs. Then he'd feel like he was being watched.

Or he would have been too busy eating them to talk. @=)

Non-sequitur.

Someone put eyeballs in my candy dish.

GilaMonster (10/28/2010)

I...

Hey, Jeff. If you can fit it in your suitcase, it's portable. May not work in a new system, but it's portable. @=)

FYI: Aside from Demo-titis, Grant had a pretty good presentation. Wish I could go to PASS and see the full 90 minute one.

Now I'm obsessing about my latest project, trying...

AWESOME! Time to start watching some shows! @=)

Waving to Grant across the interwebs while listening to him present on execution plans!

CirquedeSQLeil (10/28/2010)

I'll see you that problem and raise you a "ran out of time to...

Sean,

Thanks for pointing out that he's talking about syntax, but when I go back to read his post, he's saying ANSI is more readable than T-SQL.

I don't know why I...