This turned into an Oracle thread and we lost the connection to the original question. I think someone might have touched on the (null) server issue but no one seems...

I got it working last night using one of the suggestions above, i.e. to add myself to the Employees table in the Food Mart database. The #1 employee is...

You and I followed the same route trying to get to any of the authors (Edward Melomed, Irina Gorback, Alexander Berger, and Py Bateman). I never heard from them...