I think that's has beens actually, not wannabes, get your facts straight Mr Schneebaum.

Quite aside from the Imperialist yanks and their impending implosion up into their own cultural vacuum, I thought that was quite a useful article. I do a lot of data work, particularly on scheduling processes, so there's some useful lessons there.

One thing I find quite handy, particularly when shunting data between data sources and making comparisons, is to split the date into mm, dd, yy, mins and stop treating it as a date at all.

Actually the ONLY cursor I've ever implemented has been to solve a similar problem, trying to find the difference between two events - I was getting serious runtime issues doing it Joes way, and cut from 1 minute 30 to 10 seconds using a cursor - won't post the code 'cos it's long and boring....