OK. Well, that helps me to better understand that I don't know what I'm doing, at least.

Gail, you have a big picture in mind when you say, "Write the changes...

Thanks everyone for responding.

I agree that I need to be careful in making the changes. But then I don't really know what I'm doing, do I? That's why I'm...

Yes, setting permissions would work to keep other people from altering. But frankly I'm more worried about myself right now. I sometimes forget stuff. And then when you do something...

I was talking about using a C# generic dictionary, which is strongly typed. The key could be a numeric data type or a string data type. If I use a...

Thanks so much for responding.

You did answer my question by saying that numeric data types that will be displayed as HTML must converted to text. That's what I thought, and...

Thanks for your answer. So let me make sure that I understand exactly. What you are telling me is that "Yes, it is converted from bigint to character data. But...

Thank you VERY much.

After looking at what you wrote, I just had to put a comma at the end of the following line.

SELECT SAT.ATV, SAT.CUI, CONSO.STR

And changed your word "Object"...

For absolute beginners I think this tutorial is really good.

http://www.functionx.com/sqlserver/index.htm