Was working for Air New Zealand as a sysprog, ops called and said, "The production mainframe has stopped, got a strange message here on the console...".

IBM CE was on site...

I just knew this was gonna turn into a seriously coooool thread. 😎

HAHAHAHAHA.

Phil, you are a very brave man.

And (syntactical misue of AND, must review that) indianrock, i'm guessing you could do a lot worse than to watch this thread very...

Very cool David, the industry needs more of what you're doing here, reproducible, auditable and error handleable. Sorry, I had to invent that last word cos it fitted in well...

Tobar, I didn't get the title of Mr Diplomacy from several of New Zealand's larger coporates by being subtle. 🙂

moojjoo, y'all jus redeemed yourself with the comment about sHAREPOINT (doesn't...

As for "buy off", go back up a few entries in this this thread, generally the UI is what is in the forefront of the the person signing off the...

Ok, I am quite prepared to start a flame war over this silliness.

"knowing the correct database to build should be a snap"

Go back to school JJ B, then get a...

In case the previous post wasn't entirely clear there are three major, probably seriously conflicting, sets of of designs that need to be accounted for in any application. As succinctly...

Hey there moojjoo.

I've no intention of starting a flame war here, just maybe another 20 years in the industry could help answer the question.

In lieu of that however...

A UI has...

1. Heavily normalised data structure.

2. Stored procedures implement the select, insert, update, delete statements on the database side and the ensilo'ed (!) business logic on the application side. Heresy,...

Horse lead to water have I. Drink will it not. More I can do not, giving up I am.

May I have your permission to use this beautifully crafted Yodaism?

Many colleges run English 101 courses.