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Burton Roberts

Burton Roberts is an independent consultant and an active member of the Pittsburgh SQL Server User’s Group. He is an MCP and holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Email: burt@extendedday.com

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On Target with ADO.NET

By Burton Roberts, 10/23/2002

Trying to keep up with changing data in your reports? You can provide variable-width crosstab reports by using dynamic SQL. But ADO.NET's relational features provide a more ...

Turning Strings into Tables

By Burton Roberts, 12/01/2001

A reader shares a tip for using fn_Split() to create a table-valued function that transforms row- and column-delimited strings into tables.

Treat Yourself to Fn_Split()

By Burton Roberts, 06/20/2001

This copycat UDF, created in the image of VB's Split() function, helped the author parse thousands of query lines and emulate variable-length parameter arrays