also note that this thread is almost six years old?

you can use STUFF and FOR XML PATH to do it. There are articles on here that show how -- I'm sure because I've read them. Just don't...

There's pretty much no way I would need them. The company is tiny (like 10 people), and they don't generate data like it's going out of style. I could...

I was trying to do the latter. Not the size restrictions etc. The idea was to upsize the Access back end to SQL Server (Express) and then use...

Not enough information. Show us what you tried first.

Some days, it helps if you think before typing...

you could do it in batches and use a TRY CATCH block for the failure, and write the failed group of records...

maybe

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Hierarchy/94040/

Found this article:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/LAG/89769/

If you had 2012, you could use LAG or LEAD to look at previous/next records and do math on values between records, but since you can't...

Task 2: Use REPLACE. Look it up in Books On Line.

Task 1: Find all records that begin with 'THE '. Play with RIGHT() to strip it off.

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Here's a solution... tried it and it looks like it works:

https://skamie.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/ssrs-format-option-for-milliseconds/

Thanks for the DDL... that' helps a lot. But could you post the result that you are looking for? Then someone can figure out how to do the query.

I'm just trying to protect myself from the infamous MDB corruption issues. That and allow for a lot of data... so we'll see. Just don't know how I...

oh, sweet! That's handy! So I just have to use Windows Scheduler directly instead of using a job (which probably talks to Windows Scheduler)... Okay.

Thanks!

So you have data that's not clean? You might want to look around here for Fuzzy Matching articles. If you have SQL Server Enterprise, you can use it...

REPLACE is your friend...