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Pete,
Why the custom cursor setup when going over the menu bar on your site?
"Pete Finnigan" <pete_at_petefinnigan.com> wrote in message
news:Ury95$A8NZ6+Ewhc_at_peterfinnigan.demon.co.uk...
> Hi Patrick
>
> This sounds like a very interesting program. I wrote a similar one at
> the beginning of 1998 in Pro*C that read a configuration from a set of
> database tables. They like yours described the tables needed, the joins
> and driving columns to select the data. My program generated a PL/SQL
> programs that could then be run to populate the test data from one
> database to another. Unfortunately i don't have a copy of the code as it
> was a long time ago and i wrote it for a previous employer.
>
> The one enhancement that i never got round to finishing but you could
> add to yours is to "mangle" the data. I added a further configuration
> that allowed rules to be defined as to how to alter any column of data
> to hide its original meaning and still allow it to work correctly. This
> was necessary so that live production customer details could be taken
> off site to test with (banks requirement).
>
> kind regards
>
> Pete
>
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Received on Fri Jun 13 2003 - 08:38:35 CDT