Thanks, but again, I'm having trouble getting the syntax right with two queries back-to-back.  Could you elaborate?

I got the following to work, probably not kosher, but hey.
I created the url to put in the temp table like this:  http://tada/folder/reportName?param1=blahparam2=blah
I then parse it for...

That's so awesome!  Did the trick.  THANK YOU!

The restore to another database and then trying to copy just the specific rows did not work. My guess is the encryption key or something. I had a full backup...

a. I had a report up under the deployed/published site under http://

b. I was editing the report and accidently hit refresh and it published the report, now incorrect...

Found this one and it's just exactly what I need. Many thanks to Jingyang Li for sharing.

declare @date datetime = '2014-07-10 00:00:00.000'

, @start...

Thanks so much Elliott - will proceed. Was hoping a bigger and brighter brain than mine would have a slicker way.... Cheers.

Found this and it worked like a charm - hope it helps someone else.

1. Select the ID with the select statement

select * from sysmaintplan_plans

2. Replace with the selected ID and...

Colin,

Thanks so much for the reply.  I'm ashamed to admit I took the word of my contact at the 'remote' campus.  When I did an @@version, I discovered that they're...

Well, thank you Markus!  We'll just go back to the subdirectories then.  The examples given are weird, though, aren't they?  They are the same size, with BAK and TRN extensions,...

Bill,

Ummm, already have that but I haven't found that to be very helpful with large, bulk inserts.  It certainly works with entries made a record at a time with a...

Thanks Bill!  Actually, that's what I wound up doing and it's working great.  Seems like there should be a way to convert null fields in the conversion, though, so you...

Well, hell, Andy.  I'm just dumb as a rock.  Looked at this too long in panic, I guess.

I guess if you have no control over your import file, though, you'd...

If this is helpful to anyone, here goes: Tried to go through the virtual lab for ssis on the MS site, but, unfortunately, got to page 7 of 15 and...

Andy,

Thanks so much for the reply.  The engine is installed and running - with SP1 applied.  If I resinstall, then reinstall SP1, what's the diff? 

Somebody did suggest installing SP1...