Are you a performance consultant by any chance?

SQLGuru, thanks for the helpful feedback. Too bad option 1 has little value in your experience since it's the most attractive option time wise. I really like the index and splitting...

Clifton, thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I'm in an environment where the IT operation is at the severe end of the "every-IT-shop-is-understaffed-and-underfunded" scale. Given the huge project load (much of which is not even...

Ah, I see the difference! Very nice. Thanks again.

Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the reponse. You gave me the confidence to try again. Sure enough, the output renders correctly now on the same machine. The only difference I can think of is...