well - talk about coincidences......that alone calls for a beer!

well - I'm not going to PASS so i think I'll just have mine right away...

I know you're going to be one of the...

Well - I trust that I've gotten the point...

what is this about trusting the developers anyway...does this mean that everything has to be designed...

hey 10 pm is still early...unless you get to work at 5 am...

chris...correctly typed can be a bit confusing...I'm sure you mean the right data type and not that there aren't any typos?!?!

haritha - you cannot dictate how sql server stores your values internally - the only thing you have control over is how it is displayed - so if your column...

in the odbc data source administrator - you can configure to "use regional settings when outputting currency, numbers, dates and times"...

luigi - i was going to tell you that igor already knew this but i see that he's here to speak for himself...

haritha - this is more of a display issue than a storage/saving one...as i said in my post you can change the regional settings based on the locale....

why don't you...

mayhap a cavalier attitude but I just can't resist throwing this in...

logically then, the business logic rules that this is none of the application's business.......?????????

haritha - are you talking about numbers and currencies ?!?! this is locale specific...- in QA under tools - options - there is a box for regional setting for numbers,...

my makers didn't make me perfect, yet.....OMG - do I actually detect a touch of humility in that statement...how totally out of character

rg - this will send you skyrocketing into...

oh magyar...didn't you know...yes, of course..he's a computer! did you think he's made of flesh and blood ?!

he's actually been planted (think he's a prototype and a darn good one)...

LOL...mike...did you want to KILL tables at one time ?! don't really remember (link me a link..."find me a find")...

it's difficult to remember anything unless you're gifted with remi's grey...

i'm not sure if this is just a simple join question or if there's some underlying complexity that i'm missing altogether...paul...you can set me straight...

select t1.A, t1.B, t1.C, t1.D, t2.E,...