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2004-04-03 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 4/2/2004 10:06:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tony, Stupid question... If you and I built a company which was strictly Hey my name's not Tony but if there's money involved you can call me anything you want. Will -- u2-users mailing list

Re: Conversions

2004-04-03 Thread Mark Johnson
Thanks to all who have provide some good ideas. The conversion has occurred and is in the growing pains. Still a mistmatch but there's no going back. Perhaps I'll take this approach to learn Crystal Reports or MS Access reports. There are many previous reports and downloads that can't possibly

Re: Conversions

2004-04-03 Thread Results
Mark, Tell them you are re-purposing the old MV system as a data warehouse as a cost savings measure. That they'll understand and hopefully appreciate. Then do what you suggested: One strange thought occurred to me that may not fly. Export all the sales/customer/product data back to the MV

RE: Modern Universe (TESTING)

2004-04-03 Thread Ray Wurlod
One thing I think everyone's missed (deliberately or otherwise) was that Sara's original post had a constraint with a LEADING wildcard (WHERE address LIKE '%EXPLORATION'). The argument that has been raging since has used examples with TRAILING wildcards (WHERE name LIKE 'Sara%'). Apples and

RE: Modern Universe (TESTING)

2004-04-03 Thread Ray Wurlod
Joe, The example you specified (below) is case-SENSITIVE. It will only return rows where the value begins with the four upper-case letters designated. In particular, it will not produce the results you showed (and could never select the row with SARRA). Your query is identical to the SQL: