I am using text variable manipulation to construct customized plain text and HTML email messages for hundreds of thousands of customers...no two email messages are the same...each email message has...

I'm working with a situation with Text format field in a table where we step through each record in a table and perform a write to a flat file.  To do...

You will want to look at the following...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/rmarda/handlingthetextdatatype_printversion.asp

This is how I learned the ins-and-outs of creating, updating, reading the text data types.

I figured out how to do it...

This project is worthy a Question of the Day plus a How-to article sometime soon.

Marty

OK...Here's the big picture...I need to loop through over 230,000 consumers and their custom text sitting on the database.  I need to generate a separate text file for each...

That worked.

Thank you for your help.

Check out the website by Paul Sheriff, http://www.pdsa.com.

He has written several low cost E-Books (one on ASP.NET) and has also written "ASP.NET Jumpstart". 

Both are excellent texts for beginning...

While not free, Paul Sheriff's company (PDSA) has published a SQL Server e-book that costs $25 to download and print.  Code is included in that cost.

I've personally found Paul's e-books to...

We have run into this problem a lot too.

I like to run "Format" on new tapes using the Native Windows Backup Utility as noted in the reply above.  The SQL...

That big fluffy pink thing is his soul getting ready to go into the celestial light...Do this guy a favor and leave it out.

We are running an SQL Server environment quite nicely using SAN storage for data files.  In our environment, our Network Admins manage the SAN partition set up on the SAN...

My keyboard, monitor and mouse (and me) are in MN...My PC is a blade in Southern CA.

This is 2004.

Wow...I must be blind or today is Friday.

Thanks for the extra set of eyes!!!!

I personally would like to be able to modify the generic (and sometimes cryptic) return messages I receive from these Maintenance Plans.  A little plain more detail on exactly what...

Very good article Terry!!!

Do you know where to get properties/elements to be able to read data elements for the inbox?

Is is also possible to delete items in the inbox via ActiveX...