Here's the most efficient way that I can think of to return rows @a through @b from a table or query, when each row is ordered and can be uniquely identified by a set of columns, in SQL 2000.
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Another way to create dates easily, w/o using CONVERT or using a UDF (i.e., if you have SQL 7.0), if you are starting out with integers representing the year, month and day of the date you need to create:
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To me, this is a pretty handy function to have in your toolbox ...
Mowser