Maybe someone here helped him get a passing grade when he had to do a database development project. If so, it's karma coming home to roost. 😛

I'll drag in another alternate universe and say deploy the thopters to fetch him back before he is devoured by the shai-hulud.

So how many dunes deep in the desert are you right now, Lynn?

Sounds like a Jimmy Buffett lyric.... 😀

Steve, your point is well made that it might be a language/terminology issue. It is theoretically possible that his problem with error messages, or being asked questions himself,...

I'm sure that is how SQL Mgmt Studio scripts SELECTs, UPDATEs, and INSERTs.

This isn't the first question that has asked if there isn't a way to avoid listing a...

I've been working in there but I'm getting this feeling like a dog who's been chasing his tail for a while. I mean, how hard is it to understand an...

Try it this way. The example works, it just replaced the searched for value 'ccc' with 'xxxxxx'. To delete characters at the end, you find...

Question: Do you want to ignore a row unless ALL columns have values?

If so, you are probably going to have to list all the columns. The...

Backwards you have it. Expert you are. Game is for him to ask and you to answer.

You just HOPE he isn't.

So, Gail has already wisely decided to ignore the OP. ...

Dammit Lynn, you let the secret out!!!!...

WICKED visual that...

"What exactly DOES a pork chop launcher look like?"

"Potato-gun or trebuchet-based?"

"Why... I don't know that.... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

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