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Hey Jack:

I think we're on the same page. I would never advocate that front-end editing be abandoned in favor of ONLY bouncing errors back from the server, but...

1. You're posting it into Excel? Why not just do the running total's there? It takes about two seconds!!

2. Although cross-apply works,...

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I know of no technique that can produce running totals without using a temporary table. Essentially, you do an update assigning a variable value to a column to...

I'm right there with you, Gus.

By the way, Grant, you made a typo... it's "Night of the Living Thread."

Oh yeah... and "Shawn of the Thread." Hilarious. Made...

PorkChopMan vs. the Son of the Bride of the Thread?

How could I have forgotten "Bride of the Thread?"

I LOVED Kate Beckinsale in the last remake. 😛

Somewhen in the robotic apocalyptic future they are assembling a Threadinator with...

This is like following a chain of B-Movie horror films...

First there was.... "The Thread".

Then came the "The Son of Thread".

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Here you go. Flo stirred up quite a debate by identifying a situation where...

Looks like they tried and failed, Jack. The counter-argument would be that if that...

Do you have SQL Server Management Studio? If so, use the Object Explorer to drill down to the indexes on your table, then right-click on the index you...

Barry, ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It was a standard promulgated by the American Standards Association, which was a predecessor organization to ANSI.

See Wikipedia.

You're welcome, Ron. Hope we didn't overwhelm you with detail. 😉

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