Not to complain, since I got the question right, but the answer that shows up on the webpage says Fast Parse doesn't support leading white spaces. In fact, if...

Andrew,

Thanks for the information on the BI cert. I've been looking everywhere for additional information on what it covers. Though, I was surprised to see you list two...

Matt,

I absolutely LOVE your .sig! @=)

As far as your answer goes... Hmm. I was afraid you were going to say that. Oh, well. In this particular...

If you want to do this, I suggest using a combination of Substring() and PatIndex(). Use the PatIndex() to find the spaces in your names and then the Substring()...

At some point earlier in the year, someone did suggest you could call Microsoft and ask them if you could upgrade straight from SQL 7 to 2k5. But other...

It occurs to me that what I really need to do, to keep the table dynamic, is to make an image out of the result set of the Proc and...

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...