Your description of yourself does sound suspiciously like me Steve! Or at least my self image of myself 🙂

I'd love a way to measure effectiveness. It's very difficult...

Hear hear. I doubt it's been a real revelation to be fair but the words are certainly rational and welcome...

Hi Steve - sounds interesting, in what way is the store different to using profiler - is it kind of like that but gives you statistics on everything ever?

Isn't your suggested role pretty close to a data scientist Steve? Seems fairly congruent to me if not exactly the same. Perhaps more of a data engineer?

BTW our...

Yes. It's always worked for me. Internally I might be panicking, thinking how on earth can I get this done? when given a new major requirement or something we've never...

@Solomon
Thanks for the clear explanations, there are so many things you can get wrong even in something that simple!

@5ilver Fox
No, as that would count the total number of runs, rather than the number of batsmen that had hit the runs.

@MorlinkD
I THINK that would just...

The wife's working tonight so might look that up 🙂

Most of us have had them, perhaps they are trainable (see Phil Factor), perhaps not. FFS don't...

I often have to go a bit Zen with this. I see some super cool trendy solution that uses something esoteric to achieve an end and I have to be,...

That would be sweet Steve. Sadly there's stuff all over the place e.g. past double hop rdp servers and it would be tough to do that well right now. Excuses,...