Thanks for the feedback.

Use a word processor like MS-Word to do a search and replace... the symbol for a hard return in MS-Word is "^p" without the quotes.

Sure... I'll take your survey... make it so that cookies aren't required...

THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why doing it this way is so important...

DECLARE @ANull VARCHAR(8000)

    SET @ANull = NULL --was already null, just doing it here for effect...

For query 1... it seems a view of the tables would be appropriate (do be warned that there is a limit to the number of unions you can do... I...

Wouldn't that be what the invoice number is for? 

That would do it...

Perhaps if you told us the rest of the story as to why you are trying to do a DIR, we might even be able to come up with a...

Yep... you're right... forgot about all that punctuation stuff.  Thanks, Serqiy.

Don't know of any coherent place dedicated to just doing crosstabs or just to dynamic SQL... there's a lot of really bad examples that use cursors, as well.  But, if...

Don't think you need a cursor... see the oversimplified example at the following...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=8&messageid=319791

I strongly suspect that your example data is missing something, but the following will do for what you have... lemme guess... spreadsheet output?

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--      This is just setting up...

Since none of the methods are likely to use an available index when used in a WHERE clause, try this one...

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--      This section of code is just setup...

Why not just email the HTML that sp_MakeWebTask creates?  When they double click on it as an attachment, it'll come up just fine.

Sure, sure.... but we both know that they don't always comply... yep, it's crap but sometimes (like in the telephone reseller business) they send you crap just to make your...