Sorry for the mixup but thanks for the heads up. Guess I was a little tired when I went through those "factoids" last night. You seem to be the instructor-type....

Thanks, Brian. BTW, I didn't put it together until I read through "About Us" on your site, but I have your book, too (admin911). Came highly recommended from several sources!...

WOW, BEAUTIFUL!!! You must be on the East coast, Brian. I'm in Mountain time and I thought it was late where I am! Thank you, thank you, thank you both...

Alright, back for more. Since last posting I have inserted all the data from Joe Celko's example code into the tables I create in SQL Server 7 (opened Access for...

Wow! Thanks so much to both of you. I will have to take some time to digest all this wonderful instruction!! Then, try the new skills on the next exercise.

I...

First of all, thanks for your help to such basic questions.

Now, issues:

I left out a line of code when I typed it--

"and o1.orderid = i1.orderid"

somewhat important . . .

But you...

Don't worry about "doing my homework" for me. I am my own instructor (a bit like being you own lawyer, I think. How does that go, the one about "a...

Well, Guys, it seems to me that Antares686 is simply restating what Steve said, to wit:

"I think the IDEA of .NET is great. However, I am skeptical of the security...

Okay. Thanks for the advice. Brian, what did you mean when you said you were comfortable with letting fields be empty. Does that mean you fill text fields with ''...

Okay, so to have something empty you have to enter empty. Not terribly logical, from one perspective. :{ I suspect that this null factor is what was causing grief...

I agree cascading deletes are powerful and dangerous, but what about cascading updates? That's pretty darn useful for maintaining data integrity if properly constrained. I am looking forward to the...

Thanks again, Brian. I will simply leave out the offending cascades until I get to SQL Server 2k. For now, it's enough to know about both the shortcomings of SQL...

Wait, a port for .NET to *nix? Or something else? I have nix buddies who would be interested--if they don't already know!

Sivea

Thanks, Steve!

Sivea

Sounds exciting! With the usual MS related caveats of course.

Another naive question, what does "CLR" stand for?

Sivea