The int data type is the default data type for this statement. The default could just as well have been bigint. If I use, or even anticipate using, power(2,31) I...

With all due respect, I failed to get my point accross. If I use power(2.0,31) I don't get an error. SQL Server should have been intelligent enough to anticipate my...

If the correct answer is returned in the error message why not just return the answer and gorget about the error. Obviously the user intended to return an answer without...

Fibonacci Sequence of Numbers

You're correct, Matt. I have this aversion to writing dynamic SQL although I have used it in the past. It is awkward at best and I have read many reasons...

Matt,

That's one of the problems. I don't have a Payments(Credits)Applied table. I have only what I stated in my original posting a series of Debits and Credits and their respective...