That's a wonderful resource, but unfortunately, it doesn't help me in this particular situation for several reasons.

1) I've already written my dynamic pivot script as T-SQL and it works great.

2)...

I had a query where I was pulling directly from the linked server (multiple tables in JOINs) with a SELECT statement on the destination server. After reading Steve's article,...

Actually, those are the sorts of "Lessons Learned" you could pick up from your first IT job too. It doesn't have to be college. @=)

My first college experience was a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts, followed by a near-Bachelor Degree in History (just 1 term paper / class short when I moved out...

Unfortunately, only one of my servers is 2005 (the destination). The other server (the source) is 2000 and we can't upgrade yet because of an app that currently doesn't...

I agree that if you're using databases on the same server that a view definitely seems to be the way to go, but...

Even if you use a view to query...

Gregg,

You might want to re-read the article. Step 1. It actually does say "If the user is not a member of the local Administrators group, add the user...

IMHO, If datatypes are used correctly, no one should ever have to SUM() on a bit datatype. After all, it's supposed to be indicative of a true/false status, right?

For...

We've actually already started the re-write and we've gotten complete buy in from upper management on the issue. Especially when we told them what we were going to be...

Perhaps, but the biggest "term" we have is 7 years. Plus, we already have plans to get off the current system in the next five years anyway.

And...

Ha! I think I found it. Looks like a SUM( ) was probably the issue. And SQL Server didn't implictly convert it up to a smallint or...

I have so many mathmatical expressions in this one particular query, each of which use the tinyint, that I'm not sure which one set off the problem. I'm using...

And to follow up Andras's post, Yes, you need SQL Server (or at least the client tools which connect back to the main server) installed on every machine that you...

Aaron,

Your problem is your WHERE clause.

If you're using an OUTER JOIN and then you use a WHERE clause to define something in the "inner" table (in this case your...

HA!

The twinkie comment just made my day. @=)