Bummer!

I thought I had solved a 30 year old mystery. 🙁

Alvin,

I just noticed your photo and that you're in Memphis.

You didn't go to college in Memphis circa 1975-82 did you?

Because there was some guy that drove a nice car back...

Charles Kincaid (9/22/2010)

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krowley (9/22/2010)

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david_wendelken (9/22/2010)

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Remembered who had the book.

"The Essence of SQL: A Guide to Learning the Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time" by David Rozenshtein....

Paul Hunter (9/22/2010)

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david_wendelken (9/22/2010)

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Products get better by improving on their strengths and adding better ideas from whatever source. That other source is often competing products. So don't get...

And the dam$N%$ed bug in the sql query editor, where, when I add a name component in front of a bracketed name and type the period, the period is magically...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/21/2010)

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Does that...

Products get better by improving on their strengths and adding better ideas from whatever source. That other source is often competing products. So don't get your knickers in...

Remembered who had the book.

"The Essence of SQL: A Guide to Learning the Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time" by David Rozenshtein.

krowley (9/21/2010)

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It sounds as though everyone is in accord; there are too many IT professionals who do not understand enough about SQL. Far too many developers and, perhaps even worse,...

Craig Farrell (9/21/2010)

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Eric Russell 13013 (9/21/2010)

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Hey, all the developer needs to do is make sure his...

blandry (9/8/2010)

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...and we call this progress. For me, looking over my decades in the business, its two steps forward, a hundred backwards as we layer complexity where simplicity would...

Eric Russell 13013 (9/21/2010)

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I hope society never advances to the point where an understanding of relational set theory by the average person is required just to get by; most of...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/15/2010)

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This is why we would...

I worked with a guy who used social engineering to join the Board of Regents of a major State University. He just showed up at one of their meetings...

Krowley,

You make a very good point.

Here's an example of where that same process would hurt commerce and inconvenience us.

Doing what you suggest, however, negates my ability to log...