Can't agree more about the process of writing, and how it wonderfully concentrates thoughts. It's beautiful to distill stuff into words that somebody else can use or take joy...

Writing... well, in my free time I vainly try to write poetry. Harrass my ex to give constuctive comments - well, she did take a first at oxford in...

Botched systems? Large banks? Reporting?

Have to agree...

Well, when I wore the cloth of my country, having recited the oath, I spent a lot of time in uncomfortable positions. And discovered that sleep was a weapon.

I regard...

And, on the first day I'd got out after hospital for severe reconstructive surgery - still very ill (with undiagnosed infections) - on crutches, learning to walk again, on industrial...

Lost count of the number of times I've slept overnight on the floor under my desk, being woken up by the cleaners waving a vacuum in my direction, following an...

Umm..

personally I prefer c# to unravel my train of thought... although i do appreciate the paradigm shift to set based operatons :-).

I'm very very good at unravelling twisted balls of...

Because humans can mostly understand SQL

Quantum mechanics is fun, but has not been shown (yet) how we can process data

And Heisenberg regretted asking the "cat in a box" question... as it distracted people.

The answer is not BOTH, or either. You will not know until the probability envelope collapses and...

Well, there are several outcomes to any question..

(yes, no, dunno, not a number) do name a few. But databases are deterministic (assuming they work perfectly). You''ll get the same...

I'm not certain about that...

Damn..

Quantum mechanics is fun. I love the uncertaincy envelope.

But getting practical Thermodynamics is much more interesting.

Especially the zeroth law..

Nulls. Bane of my life. Especially when you have to do JOINs in a SELECT...

I don't understand them apart from they represent a "unknown" value. It's definetely...

Thanks, I'll give it a bash once I get some freetime. Great suggestion. Have bookmarked this thread.

It's great to have people with positive contributions to make. Moderators,...

I can't try that, I'm locked into 2000 - but as I use pooled access how could your sol help me profile individuals?