Re: Hellllp!

10001_john_smith_at_hotmail.com says...

> > Does your boss know anything about programming db's?
 

> He's been programming for 20 years, supposedly.

So before decent implementations of the RDBMS paradigm?  

> > Why not implement your idea behind the scenes?
 

> It'd result in over 2 weeks worth of work, I think he'd notice :-)

Maybe - just tell him you're optimising the code!

> > I think that you'll have to iterate through the table (Data?) and keep
> > track of as many sums as there are repair codes...

> Yes, aweful though isnt it.

Oh, believe me, I've had a few doosies in my time - like when I had to deal with a table with 35.000 (yes, that's 35K) fields <Sigh... where have all the real challenges gone?>

Iterating through something while hardcoding for fieldnames is child's play compared to some of the spoofs/tricks/downright lies I've had to tell/do/overcome in my db programming career.

> Thank Dog ive found a new job, some other
> poor schmuck will have to maintain it

Bonne chance.

Paul...  

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