If your company has a copy of SQL Toolbelt from Red Gate, I'd run SQLDoc against the database and get a lot of information in a form that might be...

One thing I didn't mention, and didn't realize until late yesterday, was that Lee took a lot less to go to Philly. I am pleased to see athletes, LeBron James...

TravisDBA (12/15/2010)

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I agree, but having the first doesn't mean doodly squat if the person does not have the skills to get the difficult job we do done, and the fact...

You can convert from strings to dates and vice versa (see Cast/Convert in BOL) with NULLs.

TravisDBA (12/15/2010)

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Ok, now for the real world. As long as cronyism continues to be rampant in this industry achieving a true meritocracy will never happen. I once knew a person...

OCTom (12/15/2010)

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Get along? Are you kidding me Steve? Did we just take a trip to namby-pamby land? (to quote a recent U.S. commercial) I don't need to be best buds...

Craig Farrell (12/14/2010)

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I'm now wishing I was underwater in the scuba gear... kilts skeer me! Won any blue...

Is it now more, or less, frightening?

You are welcome, and glad it's working.

You were on a good track, and using temp tables to work with a subset of data for troubleshooting is something you can use...

What do you mean by date conversions? NULL doesn't convert to anything but NULL.

NULL might be your best bet. You can always do MINDATE() ... WHERE mydate > '1/2/1900'

This is typically...

Typically the "pull" is through a query. As far as how you'll get the data to people, you'll have to make some decisions.

If you are just pulling this from...

Good idea, though we're already in production. Hard to stop things and bang on the disks with...

The Phillies certainly are the favorites on paper, but we don't play on paper. Anyone think the Giants were going to win before Oct last year?

Phillies have had injuries in...

Craig Farrell (12/14/2010)

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How long did it take you to forge your own halo, in between the lightning strikes,...