William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Fri May 9 14:44:49 CDT 2003
...jest 'cause I think you rite lik 'n ms injuneer ain't not no reasun to go a'callin' me names, eh! :) William Hindman ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:20 PM Subject: RE: Subjects in Newsletters: was RE: [AccessD] SQL in-line subquery > Ron, > > I have been on this list since about July, 1997. I have come further, > faster, than would ever be possible without the list. In fact, truth be > known, I'd be lost without it. Even as a pretty knowledgeable guy, I still > have questions. Access is so complex that no one "knows it all". > > I remember my first job in Access. I came from programming, but it wasn't > event driven. I was sooooo lost. I sold myself for well under 1/2 my > normal wage because the company was willing to let me read and learn what I > had to learn to do their database. 4 hours reading, 6-8 hours working, 6 > days a week (the company's old db was dying a painful death). This was 1994 > and there was no (widely available) internet, in fact not even an Access > Users Group. I was one of the founding members and board member of the San > Diego Access Users Group and loved having someplace I could go once a month > to talk about Access. MAN, it was LONELY out there back then. > > This group becomes like a family. Kindly Grandmothers like Susan, demented > cousins like William, snotty nosed nephews like Drew... well you get the > picture. <ducking REAL low> > > Yea, life just wouldn't be the same without AccessD! > > John W. Colby > www.colbyconsulting.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Ron Moore > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:04 PM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: RE: Subjects in Newsletters: was RE: [AccessD] SQL in-line > subquery > > > My great-grandfather had an old saying: 'Throw a rock in to a pack of dogs, > and the one that yelps is the one that got hit'! :-) Honestly though, I > agree with you John; I don't think solutions are being stolen, I think > concepts learned the hard way are shared (why reinvent the wheel) and new > territory is explored on a group basis (sort of a mass 'power programming' > approach). I have received much more from this list than I could ever offer > (partly because the answers appear in my mailbox before my original posts). > I consider ourselves fortunate to have such talented authors among our > venerable list members. > Charlotte and others - Don't stop writing! > > Ron > > > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >