I can understand how that would make things a little easier, but I'm not sure how that would help in rebuilding the People_Positions table in terms of the PositionID which...

I realized that I cannot use the MERGE function as we are running SQL Server 2005, so let me throw another question out there. Let's say I have three tables:...

GSquared, you're right, that may be what I need. Thanks.

Thanks Steve. If I were to load the data into a staging table in sql server, do you think the best way to do the comparison would be to update...

It seems when using PIVOT, you have to specify the column names, but given that I will have many different dates in my table, how can I specify those column...