There are several good books mentioned here, so I'll jump forward in time a little.

I know it's very outside what I do now, but Hardcore Visual Basic by...

After the loop, the first thing I noticed was the data type mismatch.  That found not be fun.

That said, what Jeff and Perry said holds true.  All that...

My question is similar to Jeff's - why export to MS Word?  If you're exporting XML, wouldn't a text file format be appropriate?

The discussion here makes me regret missing the editorial when it was originally published.

As for myself, I always change the port and will continue to do so.  There's...

From what I've read, yes, you should configure tempdb to handle the load on the server.  That's an altruism that applies to any SQL Server.

However, I believe the...

I don't think it's unnecessarily complicated to import the data into an table, validate it and extract what you need.  It's called a staging table and that's the way I...