Does anyone have experience interacting with factset programmatically ?

I should have been more clear. I typically write queries/sprocs in sql mgmt studio. Are you using svn/tortoise with mgmt. studio?

Does anyone have a recommendation for sql server 2008 src control for stored procedures?I am currently using svn/tortoise for my VS studio. Thoughts?

Thanks for confirming my intuition.

<t>I think the major risk being put forth is court risk.What are the legal precedents in place that make me feel okay investing in China? Also, for the record ZZDD, your countrymen sell political risk everyday. Talk to an Asian manager, and the first thing they will detail is how connected they are ...

Can someone give some detail on the structure of Sovereign CDS.In particular why would anyone buy CDS on US Debt?

Crypto is currently threadsafe but it is not documented and may change in future versions..net system random most assuredly not threadsafe. Found out the hard way.

Thoughts on computing Key Rate Durations on US Tips, or any Sovereign Inflation Linked Security?

Can you please elaborate a bit? I have a number of papers in mind but I don't want to post all the names ( too many).

<t>I always found the numerics on R to be lacking compared to Matlab. My numerics I mean the optimization routines. If I ran across a failure, I would find the error messages to be less than helpful. However, the usefulness of the other components of R make a strong case.I am using R more these days...

Thanks DCFC. I was hoping you would chime in. You have lit a fire under my ass.always more to learn. Anybody else?

<t>Anybody here more involved with Tech Side of the market.By tech side I mean systems development, message passing middleware, data feeds etc etc.It seems that this the direction my Academics are leading me. If you had to pin down my field its 'distributed event based systems'. Lots of queuing stuf...

Can you not filter on the recordset?

Depending on your sql install you might try using SQL reporting services and/or the business intel IDE package.

<t>My solution was to re-register scrrun.dll using rgsrvr.Some one might have a better way than a dictionary to do what I am doing which is aggregating cash-flows with the coupon dates as the keys.I am pulling in some MGTS from BB via:BLDP( cusip + MGT, MGT_CASH_FLOW). Then once I have those I itera...