Sorting

Complex Database Issue

I'll try to be brief: I have excel files that are downloaded via ftp to a folder where I have my DB. each of the excel files is "roughly" the same headers, I want to import all of these files, filter out all but 3 columns and then filter out certain rows in each table (at minimum, 25 tables) can...

Sorting hierachy data alphabetically in SQL Server 2005

I have a follow-up question to the article Navigate hierarchies using recursive common table expressions. I have an employee hierarchy that follows a similar pattern to the article, but I need to be able to sort my data alphabetically within each level. Do you have any advice on how to accomplish...

Grouping and Sorting

I have a Crystal report in which I want to group employee number but sort the group by hire date. Is this possible?