Stacey,

With all the detailed replies in handling the situation, I am a bit confused. I thought you were using a "hypothetical" situation to determine how you should respond to...

I believe the key thing here is to respond to VP with questions and not half-baked suggestions. The questions to the VP are a start to the problem-analysis process....

My profuse Apologies!

It was a topic I ran across which I hadn't seen before and thought it would make a good question, so submitted it as such without having a...

I suppose I erred in using the term "recursive procedure call" as that appears to imply a procedure calling itself or others within a nested call stack. I just...

Terrific code! I really like it! However it is dependent on a starting table name in which the tree only goes down. What about the parents of...

Michael Earl (7/7/2008)

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. . . Sometimes building garbage really is the more profitable way to go - and at the end of the day that is what you want...

jim.powers (7/3/2008)

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This really isn't that hard to understand. The link posted with the question's answer is plainly obvious.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx

In the Workgroup column on the row for RAM, the limit is clearly...

Now wait, other than the "guy" part, other professions suffer from the same sort of public misconceptions. Just look at the medical field. They are all doctors but...

I frequent the "Zone"! However, for me it can be a problem as I am usually not fully into it until late in the afternoon and early evening (after...

I just want to add . . .

If you are given a solution and told to write code to implement it, you are just a programmer. If, on the...

K. Brian Kelley (6/5/2008)

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Sort of related...

When I was an electrical engineering major, I asked, "Why does it work that way?" I was specifically referring to getting complex numbers when doing...

True database and programming certification tests serve mostly to promote one vendor product over another. On the other hand, the Project Management PMP certification is truely vendor-less (if you...

Again, you are talking Project Management, albiet Project Management processes are little used in the medical profession because timeliness in which a (health) solution must be applied. But perhaps...

It seems everyone here really needs to learn about "Project Management"! The analogies are all similar because architecting anything, a house, bridge, ship, legal-case, finacial plan, software, etc. all...

I have routinely had problems with the same issue. Specifically, I was getting getting email issues at my work address but none at my home address. Then, quite...