Mike, that's very helpful. Thank you.

So, there's no "inside-SQL 2000" way of doing this, I gather.

Would you be open to selling the .NET source code (priced so...

I appreciate the humor in your question. "Chief geek" would puzzle folks who receive my physical business cards, but I come close to saying it explicitly anyway. I unveil...

Ninja,

Thanks for the explanation. Your vendor's approach certainly seems reasonable on the surface, but I can understand why ultimately problems occurred. The concept of doing a full-text search is...

Dear GSquared,

Thank you for the guidance - both political and technical. What you wrote makes perfect sense to me.

Regards,

I was excited about my Timex Sinclair too. 🙂 It made 1982 a happy year.

If it fits the spirit of the thread (sorry, I'm a newbie in terms of posting...