I'm toast.

Been there, done that, good innit? Better than Crystal at least 😉

As a general rule I try and dump all the joins back onto the server, nothing worse than hiding...

I used to take training but now I just hire a consultant for a couple of days. My problem is that the need for training arises when I need to...

Yeah, I swapped my Mx-5 for a Mazda 6 Diesel recently, just before the cost of diesel went through the roof, still, getting a respectable 45-50mpg out of it, probably...

I prefer the geek version - there's 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.

a carrot

What's orange and sounds like a parrot?

Yeah, I wasn't sure about that either Steve, the American Office isn't even remotely as funny as the original. Hmmmm... I doubt you're being ironic (hint: Alanis Morissette doesn't understand...

Hmmm... I'd take issue with that, I think certainly the smaller vendors don't have the first clue,...

Hmmm... I don't actually think a Business Intelligence solution has any value in and of itself, where the value exists, as you rightly say, is in the dissemination of information,...

Well if I walked into a situation I'd need to get a handle on it pretty fast, and if the code wasn't consistent then that'd take more time.

As far...

I agree to a point, but I also think programmers aren't the best people to control the relational model, this needs to be done for them, it is pretty rare...

As I see it this could really help with the organisation of data. Think about a sales order, this can be created as an object with properties (Order number, Item...

Yeah, archiving is a pain in the backside.

I think the main problem is that you have to understand your relationships before you can hive off data to elsewhere, and as...

This is going to be controversial but I actually agree with abitrary deadlines, otherwise what date do you work to? Work expands to fill the time you have in which...