If today is yours, Happy Birthday.

I'm polite enough to not ask how old you are, and rude enough to guess 20-something.

Do the create scripts not work?

It looks to me like what you need is a running total calculation. Do a search for that, and it should give you what you need.

Looks like the post got removed while I was writing my reply to it.

GSquared

I can think of several things that could have...

I would assume it was at least a hacking attempt. How's your SQL security?

Steve Jones - Editor (12/7/2009)

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I'm not sure that I agree multiple apps aren't simpler. You do have the same knowledge requirement, but when you go to perform a function, you...

Something indicating who the source is would be nice.

On the other hand, it almost doesn't matter to me, since any e-mail from an address that's not in my address book...

Julie Breutzmann (12/7/2009)

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It would appear likely that quite a few people in the companies that purchased stolen information would have known or had reason to know that this information was...

My default decision is to help the person. The only reason I wouldn't would be because of some prior commitment conflicting with it.

If, as per one of your examples,...

Having one app for each choice doesn't actually reduce the number of decisions to make, it just increases the number of apps you need to learn how to use. ...

Too soon to know much.

Bru Medishetty (12/4/2009)

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GilaMonster (12/4/2009)

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Now that I read it again, it's a 2-for-1.

When did replication...

Take the time you need. I wrote a bit.

There are ways to improve the efficiency on this, like parsing the input parameter into a derived table. I didn't...

The reason I use cursors for this kind of thing, instead of "quirky update" string building, is that I can wrap each command in error handling much more easily.

It's pretty much a special form of self-join. Not sure what you mean by "simulated tables".