LOL... feel that one, I started in Dataease and DB4...

would you admit to being an access dev?

The guilty party said that he just copied/pasted the query from access. Trying to keep em away from things like the query designer though, I'm even getting em to make views with TSQL and not that bloody view designer...

oh well, it gave me a good WTF moment and a laugh...

Just come across this one, apparantly copied/pasted direct from access.... SELECT stuff FROM somewhere WHERE (((aa.type)='word')); does access always just bung brackets everywhere?

more likely you'll end up splattered over the landscape when you either fail to reach escape velocity or blow up...

heh, wasn't too fussed about conventions like variable naming, was more interested in if there's any reason why declaring and assigning variables like that and then just referencing them in the spot I needed would be bad practice. I think if I was gonna make a loop for it, I'd change the page from being html to php, was really just a quick exercise in me just trying to keep it simple and keep the page html rather than php

making a menu I want to have the option of the current year, the 2 proceeding it and the next one... this very very simple bit of code does the job well, I'm just wondering if there's any reason I should use an array instead of separate variables or if I'm breaking any other good practice rules... <script> d = new Date(); c = d.getFullYear(); a = c - 2; b = c - 1; d = c + 1; </script> and then further down, the menu <ul> <li><script>document.write('<a class="btn" href="report.php?y=' + a + '">' + a + '</a>');</script></li> <li><script>document.write('<a class="btn" href="report.php?y=' + b + '">' + b + '</a>');</script></li> <li><script>document.write('<a class="btn" href="report.php?y=' + c + '">' + c + '</a>');</script></li> <li><script>document.write('<a class="btn" href="report.php?y=' + d + '">' + d + '</a>');</script></li> </ul>

For anyone interested, just marking the partition as active again solved it... came straight back up on a reboot...

because windows...

VSS wasn't starting properly and SQL backups were going astray, did the usual checks and noticed that the OS partition that it was sitting on wasn't active, so without thinking I just made it active, (DELL server with a small partition marked RECOVERY that should be the active one), soon as I did it, I looked at it properly and beat my head against the desk, question is, if I just remark the RECOVERY partition as active, should that then solve it again or am I going to have to mess about with diskpart next time I reboot the damn thing?

you'll SSH onto the fileserver using a program like Putty, then you can navigate to the directory the file is in and use the ls -l command.

how do elephents hide in the jungle? paint their nuts red and climb trees... Whats the loudest noise in the jungle? Monkeys eating cherries

I turned the smallest bedroom into a walk in wardrobe for the wife... she still manages to fill up the wardrobes in our room as well... she's a fashion designer so she claims professional privilege.

aye, a fiver each, cannot complain at that...

I had good fun changing the ball joints on my Wife's Classic mini... Suspension knuckles next weekend... and I'm gonna have to think about taking the engine and (auto) box out soon to recon the gearbox...

oh indeed, in fact is it even possible to be a coder without an unhealthy caffeine addiction that coffee satisfies so much more than tea, alcohol can do the same job of course but the results are so much more unpredictable, see XKCD's ballmer peak for details http://xkcd.com/323/[^]

I heartily disagree, only a philistine who put milk into tea would come out with a comment like that... tea should be high quality Taiwan Mountain tea, brewed in nothing but water and should be sipped and enjoyed, nothing should be dunked in it, coffee on the other hand should be strong enough for the spoon to very nearly stand up on its own in, and can happily be dunked so you can enjoy the flavor permeating your biscuit.

You'll be needing those foxes viennase biscuit things, they are superior to hobnobs for dunking..soak up just the right amount of coffee and don't fall apart...

heh, remember doing that during a Taiphoon in Taiwan