Thanks for your reply. However, the columns in question are not concatenated. They are separately selected columns, but with a certain set of joins, the values of the second and...

Thanks for your reply. An earlier person said that the output I got from select @@version does show that our SQL Server is on SP4. (Although perhaps the OS is...

I agree completely. I don't know of any other problems people have had with Amazon, but generally I've been satisifed with their service. I would not have expected them to...

Interesting. What is the legal basis for siding with the customer in that case? If a customer makes a mistake and, say, could somehow pay Amazon $20.00 for a book...

That may be the law. But what is legal and what is moral is not always the same thing. As a consumer, I would love to live under that law,...

I can see that that might matter for some people who rushed through the screens without seeing anything but the last one. Realistically speaking, though, I bet most of the...

I think the right thing to do is to honor the deal - buy one get one free. Not get two free.

Having said that, Amazon is lucky that in...

Thank you!

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I would like to post the whole script, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to, given it is a database for a product we've licensed from a vendor.

The script...

Great, thanks. I think I will use the method of using a stored procedures to bring the data over to the same server and re-create the view without using the...

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. The reason I am using a view is that that is what is being used currently. I can ask to change to using a stored procedure...

Ha, ha, yes that is true. I didn't mean *this current* government. 🙂 Also, and I don't know exactly how this could be done, but I also didn't necessarily mean...

Yes, the government does need to get involved. Private companies are too subject to personal interests to serve as the safeguards of people's ultimate identity protection. That said, though, laws...

I recently saw an episode about a lost-at-sea search. It was a History Channel show about the Bermuda Triangle. I know it sounds hokey, but the episode was actually very...

Thanks for the editorial and the pointer to the article.

This piece reminds me of a great book I read a while ago: The Cuckoo's Egg, by Cliff Stoll.

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