SkyNet could have been very buggy and not self aware. How many times have we confused a bug with an indented feature of the program?:Whistling:

I don’t think we can create true intelligence in a machine, we don’t know why we are intelligent.

All we know is that the brain mass - body mass ratio...

If you could alter tables the way you suggest, it would appear that you could also change the column order and type.

Accidently changing the column order and type would...

Here is a problem that SQL Aggregates are good at solving:

I work at a Waste Water Treatment plant and have 30,000 tags/data points that I am monitoring. These tags tell...

From my point of view, the more SQL aggregates, the better. Most of SQL computations I do involve things like Rolling Averages, Rolling Standard Deviations, Rolling Minimums and Rolling Maximums....

When we upgrade to 2012, I will not need this statement anymore:

select * from (select *,row_number() over (order by value) row from dailydata where tagname = '<TagName>' and datepart(year,datetime)...

I am working on a tool, that does some pretty heavy number crunching, too help managers decide if it’s cheaper to repair or replace sludge pumps.

I work at a...

My current upgrade project will have been running about a year when it’s complete. :unsure: Of course, I am assuming that there are no new surprises.

This is the last...

As an old programmer, I recommend a .net language. I prefer C#, but VB is closer to English and is used in Microsoft Applications like Access and Excel.

Thanks for your help.