Calvin,

If your server is set to CONCATENIZATION OF NULL YIELDS NULL, then you will need either COALESCE or ISNULL unless you preset the variable to something other than NULL.

Richard,

I believe that, with SQL 2000, there is a BULK INSERT role where you no longer have to grant a user "SA" rights just so they can use the BULK...

Cedar72,

You've been bitten by the "time" element of datetime data types... try this as your WHERE clause...

where datesold between DATEADD(dd,0,DATEDIFF(dd,0,@StartDate))

                   AND DATEADD(dd,0,DATEDIFF(dd,0,@EndDate))+'23:59:59.997'

The DATEADD/DATEDIFF thingy accurately removes...

Jana,

Yeah, before you say anything, I see the bug, too.  Here's the corrected code... had to assume that you would have something in first name and last name fields to...

Jana,

Here's a real simple solution using the power of a NULL being returned when a NULL is concatenated... the key is to concatenate each space or comma with each name...

Regardless of which method you use to do the renumbering, if Col1 is an IDENTITY column, you would need to include the following line just before the update...

SET IDENTITY_INSERT tablename...

I dunno... David Burrows' solution doesn't use CONVERT or any form of overt concatenization (+) and may be faster as a result.  In the beginning, I used LEN, then graduated...

Dummy me... missed the formatting thing... thought he didn't understand the "ELSE".  Nice job, Rockmoose!

Rockmoose,

>We do have a problem if they have breaks around midnight .. though

Yeah, I had the same problem and decided that it wasn't so bad to use a temp...

Sukhoi,

I can't post back to your original post, either... I did take a look at the code you posted and all I can say is ...

Daaannnnng that's a lot of...

Not sure from your description of the problem but I think an INSERT statement would probably do... since you didn't mention which 3 parameters you wanted to save nor which...

@F3 was greater than one so the ELSE prevails giving you the exact same answer as you had in your second example.

Barsuk (heck of a handle there),

First, I hope your times look like 12:30 and not 12.30 or we'll have to do a bit more wittling...

The key to the problem is...

I dunno... call me "old school"... This will always round up to the base as well. 

SELECT ROUND(@Value/@Base+.499999,0)*@Base

Also, just curious... why would you need to round up to...

Sukio,

Like I said in one of your previous posts, lookup "expanding hierarchies" in "Books on Line".  With a minor amount of tweeking, it will do exactly what you want.