Roy Ernest (7/27/2009)

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Hey All,

I have been AWOL for a very long time. I have been very busy setting up the Curacao SQL pass chapter. At last we are open to...

Aaron N. Cutshall (7/27/2009)

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GSquared (7/27/2009)

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On DR, I think Amazon should have told people what was going on, but I think they did what they had to on pulling the material...

rsnow (7/27/2009)

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There are a lot of traditions. Tibetans use the term...

I read 1 or 2 books a week, usually. Sometimes more. When I was a teen, I read one or two books a day pretty regularly. So,...

Bruce W Cassidy (7/23/2009)

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[font="Verdana"]It's beaten out in weirdness by "Stars In...

Heinlein's really good for that age. So is Piers Anthony.

A bunch of AE Van Vogt's stuff (I may have misspelled the name) is really good for that...

jcrawf02 (7/23/2009)

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Free houses? Never heard of such a thing.

Glad to hear you're not involved in rioting.

Now, to get back to the off-topic-ness of the thread . . ....

I try to follow a policy of finishing something if I start it. If I don't want to finish it, I work on something I do want to finish....

Jeffrey Williams (7/21/2009)

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Looks very good - I like it. One small change you might consider:

Remove @server variable - replace with @@servername global variable. That is, if what you...

BSG Season 1 and 2 being shipped to Lynn.

Also available (first come, first serve):

Witches of Eastwick - not sure why I have a copy, don't even like the movie

Trading Places...

Have a list company run the list through a CASS process. That'll get you the best results with the least effort.

CASS standardizes addresses. It'll turn "123 Easy Street"...

Lynn Pettis (7/21/2009)

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GSquared (7/21/2009)

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... Made the mistake of buying season 1 and 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Should have rented those. That was before my Netflix addiction...

jcrawf02 (7/21/2009)

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Kit G (7/21/2009)

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(I don't watch TV at all, my TV is used as a screen for the DVD player. With the switch to a digital signal in the...

Have you tried breaking down the steps to see what's slowing it down? Or checked the execution plan for that?

Have you tried assigning it to a variable? Contains can take variables in the argument.