I agree with point 6. Event if you seem like an asshole, you have to come to a point where you say no.

Scope creep sets in and you look like...

Cool game.

Now I have something to take me to 3pm when it's "coffee" time .

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Crispin

What would be nice is you could alias common phrases.

eg: Declare FU*K_OFF = GOTO Err_Handler

If your code you could then have: ON ERROR FU*K_OFF

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Crispin

Spank has to be the best time filler!

I got 711MPH. Anyone beat me?

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Crispin

Frank, is it not to early in the morning for more techie humour?

Not enough coffee in system yet!

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Crispin

To add what was said, a solid understanding is a must in a language.

Many many times I have found someway of doing something by find a new native function.

If you...

oh boy, the serious hat just got put back on...

What you are saying is persistance. Yes, that is something that does help.

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Crispin

tulcanla,

I played around with it a bit and found a HUGE difference when adding a where to the query.

Normal selects and counts made no differance.

Did you use a condition in...

Is the format of the date correct?

By using a date of 10/10/02 SQL could get very confused.

What sound like you are doing is giving sql a date 30/10/2002

SQL is trying...

Nope. Not as far as I know / have seen.

The best way for multiple values is a seperated string which gets plit in the proc.

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Crispin

The one is a total rewrite system for the largest company in SA.

Project has been alive now for 3 years.

The other is the same stype of system but for a...

Our customers are also insurance companies. The one in the UK is the largest (I believe they are the largest insurance company in the UK) might be bathing in money...

If you want to follow the other thread, can the humour overflow into here or not?

Generally, I write code to be as optimal as I know...

I agree with guide lines.

We have about 30 developers most work in all common languages.

I am busy putting a document together with the guidlines.

Most people actually have the same standards,...

I once got into trouble during a code review by the client.

My error handler was called Hell.

In the code it read: On Error GoTo Hell

Client lacked the sense of humour....

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Crispin