Downvoted, not for content (even though it is made longer by discursive asides), but for failure to read the directions (aka RTFM) which accompany the text-input box:

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs.

Worse, the preview page, which, as a new user you were required to visit, adds, above the text input box, this:

If something looked unlike you expected it to you might need to check out Writeup Formatting Tips

Alternately, you can solve your problem with "\n" by reading Markup in the Monastery.

Your "wall of text" is almost as unreadable as a wall of code.

In reply to Re: data manipulation / sql server / business applications by ww
in thread data manipulation / sql server / business applications by perl_user_52

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