I know the title here is going to make some people think I've lost my mind before the thread even begins. Let me lay out the context.<BR><BR>I do some consulting work for my former employer because ...

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I've got an Access 2003 database linked to a SQL Server 2000 database. <BR><BR>In SQL Server (Enterprise Manager) - the field is listed as:<BR>Data Type: text, Length: 16, Allow Nulls = Yes<BR><BR>In ...

More than 750 million people worldwide use spreadsheets, and that’s why Sigma Computing Inc. thinks the familiar row-and-column metaphor is a good way to work with data warehouses as well. The company ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...