Have a look at Unicode and its' datatypes in BOL.

AFAIK, it is an integral part of the system, that you can't turn off or configure.

Btw, cute avatar!

Oh, I forgot.

As for Oracle: Who needs other sites than asktom or mailing lists than orafaq?

When I started searching for sites, I also came across SSWUG. The fact that they charge money ruled it out for me. Same for PASS International. Though I co-founded PASS...

David, and I thought those "classic off-topic" threads were dead and gone

Once again, what a suprise! Steve, never thought you are that old!...

You might also want to ask the guys at the MS hosted Windows newsgroups. Microsoft.com provides an easy to use and convenient way to access Usenet.

Good luck!

Thanks!

Why do I still have the strong feeling I know you?

Reminded perhaps he needs to be, what website he is on!

Do a search here and you'll see this has been discussed before.

Btw Michael (right?), this Yoda nonsense talk style is only...

Sorry, for jumping right in

1. Remove dynamic queries and write select, insert and update seperate procs for all the lookup tables (about 20).

Not that much...

MySQL is just one Open Source system. PostGreSQL is quite popular, MaxDB, the former SAPDb and many others.

Btw, MySQL supports also such a thing as Autonumber, but there it's...

I know it almost sounds like blasphemy in this place, but have you considered the use of an open source system?

Yes, do complex calculations at the client (scnr)

Hm, never tried it myself, but maybe a UDF could help?.

Using the sp_OA* procedures you can virtually launch any OLE object, but is there anything wrong with xp_cmdshell?

Of what "operating system commands" are we speaking here?