I'm virtual so always at a keyboard, so on calls I just type into Notepad (any other simple text editor would do). Then I transfer into Toodledo.

Most people can't cope with more than one...

This is actually an example of where a compromise is just worse for everybody.

It is so! Well the initials at least - ' The International Telecommunication Union wanted Coordinated Universal Time to have a single abbreviation...

For a start we should stop pandering to the French and go back to calling it good old GMT. Then we should abandon the abomination of Time zones and (worse)...

This is why I have a mobile phone that is 3 years old, and hasn't worked properly for 3 months. Because everytime I think about getting a new one, I...

"If a things worth doing it can probably be done in Notepad" 😀

Mannie, you were doing OK 'til you got to the cursors bit... still, as you say you are learning.

Silos are bad. People should talk to each other and try and...

Scott - to respond to two of your points.

You're right - most large COTS systems do not use Stored Procedures - and it's for one of the reasons you state...

I like stored procedures.

They provide a way of encapsulating complex sql code (ok so a 3000 line reporting procedure suggests there are bigger problems, but it's not my server,...