It can happen more quickly than you think… even in environments which seem to follow an architectural role model, some dusty corners remain.

We are running an MS SQL Server Reporting Services server for some internal reports on the Oracle production database. Nice enough report generator. Now, I have done more than just some MS Access in prehistoric times, and constantly feel reminded of that “put these 120 line SQL query into the puny little properties textbox and it will do what you want” type of development. Things have definitely improved over that with MS Visual Studio 2008 and the report designer, but then, without prior notice, I was struggling with Visual Basic… >> more…