thats why his user id is "Rookie"

Print out sStr.

It should look this:

select * from reel where pdate between '10/21/2005 ' and '10/31/2005'  order by reelno DESC

The definition of a tuple: an ordered sequence of typed fields.

Just because I have a tuple of rows in this comment does not make these rows a tuple.

Check the update permissions on those date fields that are not updating

Sounds like you may not need DBA access yourself