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Contact MS about it. That's all I can suggest on it that makes any sense to me.

Hi.

Greg Edwards-268690 (3/26/2012)

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GSquared (3/26/2012)

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Jeff Moden (3/25/2012)

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GSquared (3/23/2012)

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Reminds me indirectly of one of my three bosses at a job a couple of years ago. He ended up compulsively disagreeing with...

Here's why I consider professional personality tests critically flawed:

A few years back, the owner of the company I worked for decided all the employees needed to take DiSC personality tests....

IsNumeric won't necessarily do the job.

Try this to see why:

SELECT ISNUMERIC('1d3');

SELECT CAST('1d3' AS INT);

Definitely an interesting function, by I have to ask why you'd use that instead of a Calendar table.

I'm accustomed to working SQL Server by joining tables, not by doing bitmasks....

I'm not entirely clear on what you want here. Do you want the string-literal, or do you want the numeric equivalent so you can tie them together?

If the numeric...

I generally store them under the root path. Just "\" and the package name. But I'm lazy that way.

Jeff Moden (3/25/2012)

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GSquared (3/23/2012)

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Reminds me indirectly of one of my three bosses at a job a couple of years ago. He ended up compulsively disagreeing with me. A...

Saw it Friday...

Excellent on getting what you needed. Sorry I couldn't help more, but at least you worked it out.

I've done a lot of "real" personality tests, and the vast majority of them come under the heading of a comic I once saw. It was titled "Before Astrology...

Do you have a lot of large updates/deletes happening in the table on a routine basis?

What snapshot isolation (either flavor) does, is take the rows that are being updated/deleted and...

By the by, speaking of Boogle and Ging, Bing's daily picture today is pretty cool.