Emphatically, no. I made that mistake when I was 22 or 23, got in an accident, and was lucky to survive it. I learned that lesson. Having a drinking problem is bad enough but is not nearly as bad IMO as endangering the lives of innocent others.

Well, praise Jesus for that one. I lost a buddy in the ninth grade to a drunk driver.

Great SQL Server questions you posted, BTW. I am working on a project now where they make extensive use of SPs and triggers, and thought I was ramping up pretty well, and am certainly nowhere near mastery. Not yet anyway.

Thanks. Best way to become a master....write code, re-write it, re-factor, and study as much as you can. And to paraphrase Mike Tyson (and think of his voice when you read this), "there are no great developers in life....developers are not great....there are only great obstacles in life....none of us is great....the only one of us who is great is Allah....Allah is great......Allah, and....Don King, Don King is great too.....and that little number I took back to the hotel with the really nice ti__ies, she was great too"