Hi Brian, I am very receptive to the advice, as I'm new to Powershell - very new.  However, rest assured that in this case I was NOT doing the thing...

figured it out ... had to set the execution policy to bypass

and adding a -noexit switch on my arguments line helped powershell remain open to help me see what was...

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So things are progressing in a very encouraging way!  I used a line-by-line streaming method, which appears to open something like a collection of strings that can be for each'ed...

Sorry if this post duplicates, I had a problem with webpage when clicked Submit.

YES!  thanks for that suggestion.  when I was using vbscript, I had no trouble seeing it that...

Thanks Phil, that suggestion is just what I needed.  For some reason when I was using vbscript, I was using that method - stream it a line at a time...

I am a little open minded as to which elements I'd like to be dynamic and which ones I'm OK with having the user put some design work into on...

Phil sorry if I came across as overly "shout"-y, I just felt that sudden surge of worry that I might be mistaken for a spammer and given the boot, ha...

HECK NO! I am not the same person as that weirdo spammer posting things about  hair removal after my sql server post.

FYI!

I am a real person as is pretty easily...

Okay, point taken and thank you for teaching me that. However, this query is very simple. It is literally just select column one column two column 3 from table and...

good advice, thanks

oh ok, thanks.  I tried pasting a copied bitmap but didn't work so i assumed i couldn't.

ok so i think i solved it ... your answer that it looked OK...

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