O h, and if anyone is interested in that last post, then you need this.
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Shriek, hook, sh'bang...
There are times when the Internet can throw you a curved ball and you forget everything you learned - "...well it must be true, I saw it on the Internet". I've recently (like, in the past four years) taken to programming stuff using a SQL Server database where things is slightly different from the Oracle bits I'd done since 1996. Yesterday, I had a call from a guy in one of the manufacturing plants that still uses a very small portion of "my" old Oracle database. "Um, we need to track product in a specific way so that we can witch-hunt the shift-crew who are damaging the pallets in transit..." "Right" I had a quick trawl through the old, existing code and couldn't find anything that did exactly what he wanted. So, rather than dig out the old Visual Basic (VB) compiler and create something consistent with what he used, I thought I'd knock up a very quick report using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) -
