>
> Many thanks for the detailed response. It is very much appreciated.
>
> I must be honest I am using a MySQL DB, but I thought the SQL theory for
> this would be relatively the same. It's just that the SQL server NGs seem
> far more helpful and responsive than their MySQL counterparts, as you have
> just shown.

But ... "SQL theory" is something else than Microsoft SQL Server (which is
what the "ms-sqlserver" group is for).

Besides, SQL theory is quite different than the actual SQL implementations
:-)


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Martijn Tonies
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