Oh, I don't know. I imagine the bus ride between gigs was probably a lot of fun. Especially if the bass player was willing to share whatever he was on!!...

???

That looks like a homework problem?

Steve G.

Ah! So, you have the [?xml ...] node above the vCard node. If that's the case then "vCard" is your root node, not FN. Try changing your search to /FN...

Add a root node between [vCard xmlns="http://www.example.com/vCard"]

and [FN]Bill Gates[/FN].

Steve G.

Now that's something I can understand. I'm actually a senior IT kinda guy (been programming for 20 years) but I work for a decidedly non-IT department. Management really doesn't know...

Everyone here needs to take a deep breath..

IN ...

OUT ...

OK, Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get a little more accurate information. Why was my program...

For what this is doing, yes, 11 minutes is very fast...

Steve G.

>> vbscrip or javascript runs about the same.

Which is why I write in C#. I had a program that took 5 hours to run. Rewrote it in C# (.NET 2.0)...

P.S. Double ditto on the CPU utilization in Firefox.

Steve G.

If you want to have a single key for each customer that can be used everywhere, then you'll need a separate customers table. Something like:

create table customers

(

customerid int...

I've been struggling with the new adverts this morning: They keep hanging up Firefox. Can't close Ff, can't scroll the window, can't do much of anything, but the 'bent corner'...

We passed on SA when we purchased a SQL Server 2k license a while back for the simple reason that the cost of the SA was *more* than the already...

I think you're right about the wildcard character. "File.Exists" does a test for existance on one file, and (I believe - haven't tested it) doesn't interpret the wildcard character as...

Lets start with the simple stuff... Does your path have a terminal slash? Appending the file name w/o the slash will result in never finding the file.

Steve G.

Are you using Windows logins or SQL (old style) logins? IF this was SQl 2000 I'd say "you must use SQL logins" to do linked queries - and it may...