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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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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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...

Hasn't yet, Serqiy...

Heh... Pele, huh?

Anyway, I agree... if you are in control of the source of the data, then "store all parts of names in databases separately".  However, the story changes a...

They don't have a switch for it so....

bcp "SELECT 'Pub_ID','Pub_Name','City','State','Country' UNION ALL SELECT * FROM Pubs..Publishers" queryout publ_out /c /t , /r \n /Sservername /Uloginname /Ppassword

You could do...

The free trial version would certainly work but... why don't you spend the $64 for the Developer's version so you don't have to worry?  And, why doesn't Borland Interbase support...

Then, don't add columns to an existing table... make a new table that has all of the necessary columns (I'm thinking temp table here) and copy the data from the...