i think this is what you want...a LEFT OUTER JOIN will help identify the ID's not int he realtionship table:

SELECT se.* FROM dbo.TB__Employees se

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.TB__EmpCourse sec

ON se.EmployeeID...

here's an example using a cvustom function CHARINDEX2, which finds the nth occurrance of a string...in your case a space...

/*

Example:

SELECT dbo.CHARINDEX2('a', 'abbabba', 3)

returns the location of the third occurrence of...

here's an example that chops up the peices for you to concatenate:

/*

--results

Years Months Days Hours Minutes ...

i think the UPDATE FROM syntax would help in this case; i took a wild guess and hoped there was a relationship between a column named entityID?!?! and your two...

if you need the total, you;ll need to declare a variable, and add them together:

declare @TotalRows int

SET @TotalRows = 0

Select top 10 * from Employee

SET @TotalRows = @TotalRows...

For Openquery to filter the results on the Linked server side, I believe the where statement needs to be inside the openquery to avoid the performance issue where the table...

i actually keep the correct link to that script to generate insert statements in my signature on the hopes it gets someone to post their data in the forum:

http://vyaskn.tripod.com/code/generate_inserts_2005.txt

well it's not a fixed ratio; a database with lots of varbinary/image/blob type data will have a less effective compression ratio than one that is mostly just text and numbers.

you...

based on his latest description, i think the issue has nothing to do with formatting...it's the master data is on row 1 of the results, but he wants rows 2/3/etc...

just make it easier on yourself...

create 5 views, one for each group of statements you will need to gather....

yeah the view will have the 12 statements for each synonym, but...

i'm guessing permissions maybe? the job when run under the SQL Agent might not have permissions to some shared resource or not? what is the job doing?

don't forget that the Express edition does not include the SQL Agent;

you should spend the $49 dolalrs and get the Developer Edition, which includes the SQL Agentand so much...

i think synonyms might be a good fit for what you are trying to do.

a synonym can point to an object..table,view,procedure, etc.

so you could make a suite of 12 synonyms...

formatting shouldn't really be done in the SQL if at all possible, but you can still do it.

one easy way is to convert the results to the right CHAR size:

SELECT...

doh i should have tested that: wrapped the datediff evaluation with the convert first, sorry:

select ABS(CONVERT(BIGINT,(DateDiff(minute, getdate(), '1900-01-01'))) * 60),

ABS(CONVERT(BIGINT,(DateDiff(minute,...