[quote=Sir Toose]Cool! Bunch of old Geezers![/quote]

[quote=Sir Toose]Yeah... some of that... but you can build complex boolean algebraic statements from within cystal and it does the work of generating the actual code[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][b]Austruck[/b] is too...but she's not really a regular in the same vein as yo-self, masta Matt.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]I think Patti is a little older...and I know [b]Snoozle[/b] is.[/quote]

[quote=Sir Toose]Dude I have the honor of being the oldest regular  MoFo I think... unless Patti has me beat by a few months[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]You mean like MAX/MIN/AVG/whatever, or more advanced stuff?

Yoda old is like 900.[/quote]

[quote=Sir Toose]Access is very limiting...I mean it's nothing more than A GUI overlay to generate SQL code. I bypass the middle man frequently. I use Crystal alot to generate queries... the built in math functions are killer[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Bah, I'm much more comfortable with the other side of things...messin' with the data once it's retrieved. String manipulation is HEAVEN! So much fun.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Yeah, I think I see what you're saying. Blast, I can't stand Access sometimes. I wouldn't be able to handle getting used to it all over again.[/quote]

[quote=Sir Toose]Yeah... SELECT, FROM, WHERE, ORDER By, UPDATE etc is straight SQL. It gets kinky applying mathematical formulas to it...[/quote]

[quote=Sir Toose]Should be identical. I'm studying SQL Server 7.0 and the commands are the same...as expected. Look at one of your old DB's in the query section and where you toggle from design to layout view there is a small arrow... click on that and you can watch the SQL being generated[/quote]