So true, Tim. I find that when I help others the topic tends to be clearer in my head as well. since I don't want to go on...

While Toshiba's have been known for their high quality laptops in the past I really believe they have gone down hill in recent years. We used to swear by...

I think I'd go for a set amount of company paid training every year with paid time off to take that training.

Thanks for the tips! I'll check that stuff out!

I do plan to refactor it. I was just wondering why the performance changed after I ran the query and updated the statistics.

That might work. I'll look at doing that. Thank you!

I'd look into using SSIS for this. You can create a pretty straightforward package that reloads the SQL Server tables from the Access database and then schedule the package...

I'll check it out. Is there any way to get this stable?