Thank you! I need to perform this exact same task, and you have saved me wrestling with digging through the documentation and trying to find the best way to...

I would be interested in seeing the real world comparison of the differences in (a) operating costs, and (b) ease of maintenance, between the in house server vs cloud.

But while...

For me the blurring between work and personal time is already a reality-- more from my sense of responsibility to keep things running smoothly than from the business chaining me...

Very interesting approach!

I'm not quite clear on the final practical step though-- do you avoid the multiple messages and circular references by making the person doing the mailing manually clean...

I agree it is a bad idea to grow corn to make alcohol. But it is possible for biofuel generation to be beneficial: the idea would not be...

Access appears to require more work-- you will need to use the ADOX type library, which you can import into Delphi ("Install ActiveX Controls" under the Component menu in older...

Hi Steve,

I definitely tried parts 4 (substring), 5 (stuff) and 6 (bending results). Three strikes and I thought it was universal.

Now I just tried a few more, some worked....

My choice, and affordable, is Enterprise Architect (http://www.sparxsystems.com/). Can do much more than just the DB diagrams, but the Pro version does the database very well. ...

That's great! Thanks for the update-- it will help others who bump into similar problems. (And sorry I didn't follow up earlier, but I was out of ideas...

I have not experienced that limitation-- I just got the script for a 25 kb stored procedure through sp_helptext. Since sp_helptext outputs the procedure code line by line (respecting...

I was able to compile your code and get it to work in Delphi 5 with SQL Server 2000, so I'm not where your problem might be.

In the...

I have not used ERWIN because it was out of my budget. The tool I have used for forward engineering (and a little bit of reverse engineering) is an...

I have not used the EasySoft drivers, but have used an open source Firebird/Interbase ODBC driver successfully for exporting SQL Server data into IB 6. (The other driver I...

Another product to look at is Team Coherence (http://www.qsc.co.uk/). A fellow programmer tried out quite a few products and this one was the one we went with....