Well that went pretty well, all told, thanks guys...

But the one gobsmacking revelation was that top management time farting around in spreadsheets counts as managing the business. At no point...

Well one of the main arguments I am putting forward is that a reporting database would allow us to cross reference the data we are using for costing with our...

Steve Thompson (8/13/2009)

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I'm happy to help, Richard.

And I like Allister's idea about making the "improvements" seem to be part of the overall company vision; managers like it when you make...

Thanks Steves, yes Steve T has part of the answer there, and it's certainly an argument I'll be bringing up, but the crux of the issue is that the divisional...

True, but if you've ever used a product called Misalea (I say product, I mean a load of hacks designed to fool Excel fanatics they're using Excel and DBAs they're...

I often find moving 1s and 0s from left to right and back again quite tedious and regret not being a rock and roll star. Unfortunately that's down to talent...

No joy at all with the 10g drivers - no idea why but none of it works.

Went back to the 8i drivers, everything is fine now.

That's progress for you ;(

OK, so I've done a couple more tests and realised it doesn't matter which table I query I get 99 fewer records through ODBC than I do through any other...

Hmmm... Have you looked at the security on the Oracle folder? It may be that the security context in which the job is running is not adequate to access the...

I haven't got time for this.

Yeah, I looked into it to see if I was right and it talked in terms of putting 1kw/h into the electric pumps to generate about 3 to 4 kw/h...

I think if you've ever been camping you've probably tried gnats urine...

And alright, I admit it, I've had a few buds myself...

As far as cooling is concerned, isn't just...

Ah.. Pilsners overrated, but Bud is the epitome of gnats urine and compared to that the Germans do knock out a few good ones, granted (personally I prefer a good...

Obviously not a...

I'm just looking at getting my roof redone. As we have attic rooms I want to put some insulation under the tiles (we need all the space we can get...