Great post. I totally agree that soft skills is like having a form of insurance. With regards to consistently practicing my presentation skills, my toastmaster club helps me to present...
Convert(bit,colname) --- colanme will return true or false indeed helped. In my case i was trying to assign a false value from varchar column in my table to a boolean...
the given answers are incorrect....when i execute the code(SQL 2005)....it gives me the result as 1,2,4,5 and this is an exception message. It is annoying to see incorrect options....;-)
Did you check if the table exists.When you create the connection.There will be a button "TestConnection" to ensure that teh connection is right. I would start from there....