I don't need to see that kind of obscene language in emails. I've unsubscribed.

I can understand those who are used to the command line not liking SSMS, I sure like the command line in Windows.

BUT being relatively new to SQL Server, I don't...

I sure hope the government doesn't try and take this over also.

We'll get what we're going to get with ObamaCare:

Government Health Care: The efficiency of the Post Office, with the...

Half of the programming work for the applications I support is all around DST.

I don't think those people who think DST makes money, realize the cost to industry of having...

I don't see any search history in my dashboard, how do you get to that?

[font="Tahoma"]Thanks, that worked great.

I only really needed the metadata so it was perfect, but just to mess around I tried to export/import the data after I created the tables and...

OK, I had tried that before but must have mangled my statement,

that works just fine, thanks.

That looks like it'll get me what I want but I'm still not getting the syntax,

my problem is that I only have the columns being returned that

I want to aggregate,...

Thanks Jack, that's what I needed to know.

OK, I'll do some research, thanks.

This is actually for a small part of the app, which I have working now in Excel VBA, using a Recordset Open method with a constructed string. I was...

@pointnames is a string with my list of fields in it

I need to select the recordset based on them.

How do I get the string parameter to expand out?

[font="Tahoma"]Another thought:

maybe he asks the dumb questions instead of looking up the answer because he'd rather talk to a human being sometimes than look up the answer on a machine.

I...

[font="Tahoma"]It would be wrong to fire him. The article puts across that he does a fine job at what he does. There's no mention of him being a...

Actually, I did try it that way, and got some kind of type error (can't remember now which).

I may get back to trying it again, I've been pounding my head...