Your point about intelligence is correct, but do you mean a 'programming language' when you refer to 'mastering language(s)'?

It's obvious that a programmer must master a language to be able...

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Spank has to be the best time filler!

I got 711MPH. Anyone beat me?

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No, didn't...

OK, that helped a lot ...

Hope my boss doesn't get in today

Don't really agree with that one dalecorry.

In my opinion, being a good programmer does not depend on (development) language.

Language is pure syntax and features. Real skill is situated in...

You can use the following query.

SELECT t1.bal_date,

     (SELECT sum(income - outcome)

      FROM your_table t2

   ...

Still not sure what you want to accomplish.

If the idea is to fetch the two indexvalues from the database in a single statement, consider writing a stored procedure.

You would pass...

*Putting on the serious hat again*

Yes, we do have coding guidelines.

Yes, I do see the need.

We are only 10 in our company.

IMHO, coding guidelines are needed even if you are...

If you want both records in one resultset, use UNION between the selects.

SELECT zzz FROM ...

UNION

SELECT yyy FROM ...

LOL Crispin, this is way too good.

I'm adding this to our coding guidelines...

Yep, back to the serious notes ...

Here's the complete reference if you want to know a 'real' programmer from 'the crowd':

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/realmen.html