I was all set to attend a webinar of Roberts on Tuesday when I received an email stating that the webinar had to be cancelled due to a significant unforseen...

Years ago (much earlier in my career!) I was a "Programmer/Analyst" writing COBOL applications to support a large batch and interactive system we had at a local Ontario community college....

Looking forward to hearing all about It Steve!  Enjoy your "time off" ha ha!!

And yes, anytime spent with a family member is generally always time well spent, regardless...

No worries, I can manage...

Yup, I did see that... That's actually what I have been using, I modified the packages .dtsx files in notepad and did a global change to set that property to...

Yes, that is certainly an option (which I had forgotten about) for sure but can be an issue if you are opening a project that had one or more packages...

More description on what is actually going on in the script along the way for SQL newbies would have been nice but otherwise very nice...

The author hit on a topic that should be near and dear to all of us and that is the ability to read, decipher and modify other developers SQL code....

I should have clarified. What I meant was new for the SQL environment and team you are working in/with...

I've never seen that particular SQL coding before and I will try to use that. I have seen tons of SP's and views here where I work with lots of...