I agree with that!  Store the phone number as a string of digits only... the other kludge that needs to be considered is are any international numbers ever going to...

Spot on especially about testing (or the general lack, there of)... thanks for the feedback. 

Perfect, Mike... Thanks for the tip. 

And I see what everyone is talking about, especially you and Confucius247...   If you really want to get deeper, read the "Terms of Use"...

Move the COMMIT TRAN to before the SET statements OR modify the two SELECTs in the SET statements to ready uncommitted data with WITH (NOLOCK)...

A better question is, why are...

SELECT STR(0.00,10,2)

SELECT STR(.00,10,2)

SELECT STR(0,10,2)

Still, Remi is correct... it will affect even a system time test because of the distribution unless you know for sure that the distibution of the actual data will be...

NOW I remember why I never looked at BOL 2005 ... Microsoft pushes the .NET stuff down your throat even on simple documentation...  BOL 2005 wants me to install the...

Thanks for the tip... I've not seen BOL 2005 so I couldn't tell just by reading the article... I'll check it out...

Thanks for the posted code.... still, why do you need to manufacture 10 rows for each row in the source table?

Yeah... and how many rows did you ultimately end up with?

Hang the typo's!!  There aren't that many and it's very obvious what they are/should be.  Heck, I've seen more errors in published books that have supposedly been professionally proof-read and...

This looks like a homework question and you are trying to get someone else do the work.

I'll drink to that!

Steve,

I gotta ask... you're saying that you basically want to copy all of table A into table B 10 times (regardless of the loop you requested)???

Why?  Not trying to be a smart guy here but why do you want to do such a conversion?  A lot of times,...

Heh... better late than never...