Interesting tecchy answers......

To my mind the problem would be better solved by asking the user what their criteria is for choosing the 17,000 customers in the first place, there must have been some reason...

I've been looking into this as well, as far as I can see it is really just good sense formalised.

Having a monolithic code and fix built legacy app to moan...

I don't know about not sacking someone for this kind of system error - OK this is a pretty minor incident for Amazon but last Christmas we used a company...

Hmmm... Not entirely clear on the email address, are you saying, for example, that you can run a report with outstanding invoices for (i.e.) 200 customers and insert their email...

Just my 2 cents, is it not possible to address the internet connection problem? You're in Dallas, right? Surely you can get a decent connection there???

Thanks for that Michael, very useful.

As it happens I managed to work it out in the end (didn't post because I felt a bit dumb and it had been a...

Oh, absolutely no objection to that old boy, although you have to bear in mind about 30% of English is French anyway. All I'm saying is that it should be controlled by Oxford...

We're awfully picky about our language, you know, I think you would be too if you saw the abomination that is Office sweeping the world and "correcting" perfectly good English spelling and...

Hmmm... Ok, I can see how that can help going one way. What about the other?

I am at a bit of an impasse at the moment. I've discovered that 2005...

Surely more fun to microwave the platters...

Anyone ever tried this? I've done a few CDs, they're quite interesting. I can imagine a platter might cause the Microwave to explode, which...

In truth I'm having similar problems to you at the moment (I'm trying to reverse engineer some reports I built on the eval 2005 back to a 2000 installation with a...

Hi Nate,

Well according to Microsoft :

To manage connections between the report server and report server database, and to find out which database is used for a particular report server instance,...

It's true you need a large consensus to hire a decent person.

Unfortunately our production manager was hired on the basis that he is the Son in Law of the ex-boss....

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***Erwin Rommel

Gentleman, visionaire, creative thinker, true leader, always on top of things and always at the spearhead of operations. "Where Rommel is, is front"

The man could easily have been...

Thanks Steve, actually I've never actually called Microsoft for anything anyway, so it is kind of irrelevant, but I'm bouncing my finance server up to 2005 next year and this...