Hi Jaholbrook: Your post comes down firmly in the anti-sid camp, but you didn't really say anything about why they are poor design, etc. Any thoughts?

That was my next question. thx.

Ahhh. Of course. That would make likely be it... Never thought of that. thx.

On the subject of degrees: First degree was a B.A. honors in Japanese language and literature, post grad work in Japan, 11 years there in trade and finance. ...

On the topic of welders and such, I work in a factory that employs a number of them, and it is at least as hard to find one capable of...

I worked in Japan for 11 years (I am fluent in written and spoken Japanese, as well as German), and can attest that ANY two cultures coming together will result...

Hello Carolyn:

I had a question about one item in the article.  In a textbox on the report there is the following snippet of 'code' visible:

=First(Fields!......

What is that "First" all about? ...

Ha Ha!!  Cheers.

Well, I think this is the first time I am really, truly, completely different. 

I have no computer at home.  I don't have any email, television reception, cell phone reception,...

Sergiy:  RE comment #2:  Very good!  I hadn't spotted that.  Thanks very much.  I will now compare the results of the two queries to see if they are actually identical....

I tried rewriting it as a subquery, and that seems to work fine.  Thanks anyway.

SELECT f.Silo

 ,f.receivedate

 ,(SELECT CONVERT(numeric(4,2),AVG(1.0*g.extcdb))

 FROM vwKPIMaltSiloExt g

 WHERE g.Silo=f.Silo 

 AND g.receivedate BETWEEN DATEADD(dd,-10,f.receiveDate) and f.receivedate

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Regarding the double underline experiment, I have found in general that the 'links' were utterly useless -- completely unconnected to the double underline topic or the article itself.  If they...

I had a similar event last week.  Unfortunately it didn't end so well. 

The critical part in your damage control method is backups, and I found out the hard way...

The last thing is that I tend to go into jobs at this stage of my life looking for a long term fit. I want a job to last me...

I ran into a similar issue in an intranet app. Because the IP addresses are not static, there is not a 1:1 relationship. I had to do a...