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QUESTION POSED ON: 06 October 2008
I have two questions regarding how to manipulate column names in SQL Server. Is there a command to turn the names of columns in a table into variables, and is there a command to rename columns, as well? I have attempted the latter, but it does not work in conjunction with Visual Basic programming.

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