Absolutely outstanding article, Sushila... Your fine article should be the one that is required reading, not only for the "newbies", but for many of us old hacks as a reminder...

Long term transactions will cause huge wait periods and, possibly, deadlocks.  I like Sreejith's method and have used it before... we used a column called "IsDirty" and it contained the...

The way you have it written, you are trying to insert into a temp table and variables at the same time.  If you want to do both, you will need...

Be aware that when you change a diagram and save it, it actually updates your database to match... diagrams are really a form of somewhat anorexic data models.

Another possibility would be to use a "Linked Server" which would also hide the login and password from prying eyes.

That's a good start... got any data we can play with and, like I asked, are the tests stored in the same table as the quizzes?  If so, what marks...

Where is the Test info stored?  In the QuizLog?

Sidebar... does you table actually have columns with spaces in the names ?

I think it...

It sounds like the classic "make change" problem that used to be taught in many programming classes... I'm on my way to work right now but I think a function...

Perfect case of too many cooks spoiling the broth Thanks for the feed back on what you found, Ville... definitely something to keep...

No.  Serqiy is correct... the table design is wrong... if you take multiple payments for a given invoice, you should have multiple rows.

Stephen,

If you want separate totals for each payment type, then this would do...

 SELECT SUM(Cash)    AS TotalCash,

        SUM(Cheque)  AS TotalCheque,

        SUM(CC)      AS TotalCC,

        SUM(Account) AS TotalAccount

        SUM(Total)   AS GrandTotal

       ...

Actually, none of them is absolutely right.

If you have one that is, would you mind sharing it...

Thanks for the feedback, Mark...  this one was a lot of fun!

Serqiy... I'd still like to know the "magic" behind your 5 second report, if you get a chance.

Should the totals be by day for the range or are you just looking for a grand total for the range?