yeah, it's sql server 7.0 🙂 so no bigint. even if it did support, still not nice, wasting space.

if only mssql has unsigned ints, and mysql had stored procs and...

thanks for the suggestion, but i was hoping there was a more elegant way.

i am a little disappointed in sql server because it's been so good to me til now.....

i found the examples a bit strange, surely noone would use a varchar field to store a date of birth, you would use a datetime or timestamp field. and the...