Thank you, Mark, for the response to my question. I am unsure, though, how or where to run KILL SPID. Can you further point me in the right...

Great editorial! It becomes difficult to fault companies who reside in a country who's very own government appears to be poised to "give the nod" to torture. Dick...

Thanks, Martin. I am going to dive into this either tomorrow or Wednesday more fully. I appreciate your ideas....I'll give it a try.

- Austin

I guess if worse comes to worse then I will have to make use of the textbox. The problem is that there is no formatting available within the textbox...

Thanks for your response! Here are some records from the Birth_Date field:

19791231

19791231

19791231

19791230

19791230

19791229

19791229

19791226

NOTE: Many of the Birth_Date fields are populated with nothing but zeroes.

Thanks again for taking the time to...

Thanks so very much! This is exactly what I was hoping for!

Thank you all very much! I think I've got it now!

Austin

Thanks, but not sure I see how a CONVERT is going to help. I don't really think I want to convert the data-type, just the format. Isn't that...

Thank you all so very much for your kind assistance! I finally GOT IT! I really appreciate your taking time to explain it to me.

Thanks very much!

Austin

Thank you both for your kind assistance and extreme patience! I think I must be VERY thick, because I am just not getting it. Here are two examples...

Thanks very much, Remi! I must stress, however, that I am truly new to TSQL. What I tried earlier without success was the following statement is Query Analyzer:

Select rapdata.member.member_number,...