does that work for little brain sizes too?

Dear Eva. Please use a bigger font size next time - I was looking for my glasses since two hours, instead of answering your question 

... and you have of course no permission to ignore godfather

post scriptum: godfather is of course informed of all the challenges his little sheep have gone through....

This is the most weird thing I've ever heard of. Why not create a bitmap in .NET and paste it directly in the memory of the legacy system? 😉

I apologize, but...

As you are a senior DBA have others install it for you.

This is interesting ... A header row? What's that supposed to be good for? Printing?

To simply check, whether NULL-values are the reason, issue a

SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF

in your QA before running the actual query.

True. This is the version to choose! For it is format independent, compared to several weird "CONVERTS".

No, select statements don't print. You will have to buy a printer.

surely. can you post the cursor?

While executing that cursor you could assemble a retrieval statement at the same time

Yes, but I still think, that the commision calculation shouldn't be isolated. I understand what you want - please read the private message I sent you!

You still forgot to integrate a CLR-based-webservice for the retrieval of seldom animal names like the commagoose known for it's beautiful feathers.

You're all wrong!

 >I have a table with a field that contains comma-delimited data.  Here is a sample of two rows and the values for each field<

cat, dog, mouse

mouse, dog,...

Interesting. How comes you don't know your tables fields?