Great post. I totally agree that soft skills is like having a form of insurance. With regards to consistently practicing my presentation skills, my toastmaster club helps me to present...

Convert(bit,colname) --- colanme will return true or false indeed helped. In my case i was trying to assign a false value from varchar column in my table to a boolean...

the given answers are incorrect....when i execute the code(SQL 2005)....it gives me the result as 1,2,4,5 and this is an exception message. It is annoying to see incorrect options....;-)

I would love to attend one for free and during weekends....:-)

In order to keep your destination database/ table consistent. Create a staging database and table

( take help from dba to set-up the staging env is you are...

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Did you check if the table exists.When you create the connection.There will be a button "TestConnection" to ensure that teh connection is right. I would start from there....