So, no one's evvvvvvvvvvvvvver come across a situation like this?

A little help here?

That works too.  I forgot about that Task, as I don't use it much.

- and + are not operators in this case, but are treated as signs.

If '-' wasn't a number (when converted), then how could '-45' be a number?  It's just a...

I've never been able to use a proc as a datapump source without using disconnected edit.  I use dummy columns that mirror what the proc returns when working on the transform.

ie...

select...

Your HDD problem could be related to using an SATA drive.  Win2K doesn't detect SATA on it's own.  You have to tell it to load a SCSI driver, then give...

The fact remains that while the answer will work for the rows presented, it's still not correct for retreiving only those records with '5%' in them. Any records with...