Damn   I did say untested

Replace

SELECT DISTINCT CONVERT(char(6),DATEADD(year,10,Period),112),PolicyNumber

with

SELECT DISTINCT CONVERT(char(6),DATEADD(year,10,EffectiveDate),112),PolicyNumber

Ooops! sorry

Remove the a. in the first select from

SELECT DISTINCT CONVERT(char(6),DATEADD(year,10,a.Period),112),PolicyNumber

to

SELECT DISTINCT CONVERT(char(6),DATEADD(year,10,Period),112),PolicyNumber

At first guess and off the top of my head (untested)

CREATE TABLE #temp (Period char(6),PolicyNumber int)

INSERT INTO #temp (Period,PolicyNumber)

SELECT DISTINCT CONVERT(char(6),DATEADD(year,10,a.Period),112),PolicyNumber

FROM GE_Transaction

WHERE Status='A' AND DATEADD(year,10,EffectiveDate) >...

In EM (Enterprise Manager)

Right click on the database

Select All Tasks / Generate SQL Script

Click Show All

Select All Tables (or select individual tables if required)

Click Formatting (tab)

Deselect the Generate CREATE /...

Another way to identify chars above ascii 127 is to use the now famous numbers table

SELECT t.rowid, n.Number

FROM t

INNER JOIN [Numbers] n

ON n.Number <= LEN([column])

WHERE...

Depends on what 'foreign' means

You could try PATINDEX

PATINDEX('%[^!"#$%&''()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~]%',somecolumn)

which will give you the first column where char above 127 is (except for control chars as cf/lf etc and [], but would...

And I'll be long dead.

But your rants will be on this site for posterity

...there is no way to "query between 18:00:00 and 06:00:00'...

Oh yes you can

damn

only seems to work for AND's

those queries are not returning the weired desired result

Your right

Forgot...

So join the tables and transform the data, e.g

You have inserted your data into a temp table as one column and you wish to update a real table using this...

...what do you mean by SET based UPDATES...

e.g.

UPDATE

SET column = value, column = value

WHERE [condition]...

I would do it like this

SELECT REGISTER

FROM @Customers

WHERE (@customer IS NULL OR CUSTOMER = @customer)

AND (@id_city IS NULL OR @id_city = CITY)

AND(@id_country IS NULL OR @id_country...

Plus

1. The file spreadsheet file must exist

2. Each sheet referenced must exist

3. Each sheet must have the correct number of columns in row 1 (Header Row)

3. The data will be appended...

yes but i don't want to use DTS or SSIS

The your only option is to

1. BULK INSERT data...