Thanks Steve. Good move doing this.

Hey gang, I looked up "Vermillion". Wikipedia spells it with one "L". For all the "natural ingredients" folk just look at what...

I guess I'm lucky, if you can call it that. Most of my work has been for IT companies. Typically I'm the resource that get shared. Then...

I knew of a mythical organization where "got root?" had real meaning. One server had root root as the credential for root. After getting flamed for SA no...

We all pitch in when needed. Sometimes going and doing something outside the norm can be a mini vacation. Anything can be abused.

One day a fellow...

Thanks. I had to go into view source and grab it. No big thing that. Then I had to turn all the non-breaking-space codes into spaces, all...

I wrote at Dot Net program to list the tables. I then added a table called doc_fields that has table name, column name, and comments. My lister merged...

That's better. Using a number that represents a date on some particular scale is more reasonable. It reminds me of the Unix time stamp. It also reminds...

That works great. I wonder if this works for Compact Edition?

Great article.

I was not able to copy and paste the code into SSMS. Had unicode characters and syntax errors that I could not see.

I also have lots of tables...

I wrote some stuff in Perl as that was what was available on the web server. It was not that bad to write code. You start with the...

Good point. But then

/*

Good comment not.

-/**/*/

does work. Does this remind you of the Perl parser?

Good article. One suggestion would be to use the pipe character ( | ) as the default separator. Some people and place names have embedded commas. Some...

Let me see if I can show what is going on here and why. Lets number the lines

(00) PRINT '1' -- /* ;PRINT '2' */ ;PRINT '3' /*

(01) PRINT...

You are very welcome.

Congratulations on writing a good article and taking criticism. Keep up the good work.

Good article.

You should put a check in for columns that support NULL. They don't need defaults and in many cases should not have them. For example I'm doing...