Check out this older thread. It has many pointers for you:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8320&FORUM_ID=24&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Transaction+Log+out+of+Control&Forum_Title=Backups

All the best,

Dale

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Hopefully during next week I'll send Andy Warren my picture. Wait for it, and feel free to judge on it.

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That is also true for setting priorities in work, so there is a kind of natural conflict with my boss. Especially when...

Frank,

You are just a sponge for this stuff. You are what we Americans call a "Cyber Geek". I'd hate to see what you desk...

Here's another good link on Visual Language Research Bibliography:

http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/vpl.html

You'll find everything under the sun there on this topic.

All the best,

Dale

Yeah, you can quote me. Here's a good abstract and biography on Zloof:

http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/Archive/SpringY98/zloof-apr24.html

All the best,

Dale

You made a good point about designing in the visual tool and then refining in QA. That's exactly what I'd like to do in EM only the capability is...

Personally, I think it's funny that everyone balks at using QBE in EM for query building. I found that in Access, my percentage of reference ambiguity using Grid Manager was...

Yes, I have numerous templates created already. However, my point to this whole thread is that there are some things that are far more easily done in EM using...

P.S. I'd be interested in any third party QBE tools that are out there.

I could only find a template for an INSERT INTO TRIGGER in QA. Not really what I meant before but thanks.

Another query I hate to key in is INSERT INTO especially if there are different column names involved.

Good point. In that example, I agree. However, for example, if I'm doing a Right Outer Join between two tables (or more) that have multiple columns involved, I'd...

You can stay, Frank. I just get queezy when I see the words "Upsizing Wizard".

No, seriously folks. I did a research paper on the guy who came up with Query By Example in the 70's, Dr. Mosh Zloof of IBM, and there are...