Hi Sammie,

Nous nous sommes allé a Orléans, France, au mois de mai 2005, et est allé alors à Nantes à rendre visite avec 250 cousins de « Champenois » à la 2005 Fete de Champenois. Nous avons vu la statue de Joan d'Arc à Orléans, à Paris et dans Nantes.

We visited Orleans, France, in May 2005, and then went to Nantes to vist with 250 "Champenois" cousins at the 2005 Champenois Reunion. We saw the statue of Joan of Arc in Orleans, in Paris and in Nantes.

We also visited a city called Beaugency which was south of Orleans. MY 3rd great grandfather, Pierre Champenois was born in Beaugency in 1769, and departed for America in 1801.

Okay, enough of that.

I have recently found that my interests are spiked once again into another Microsoft product, or shall we say, products? Maybe I should not say once again, because the first product that really sparked my interest was from Fox Software out of Ohio.

Well, thank you for sharing your situation; it does help me to see things in a different light.

Cecil

>Cecil,
I'm a little late getting into this thread but for a very good reason. I was in Oracle PL/SQL class all of last week. I am 67 so to me you and Pete are youngsters. It gets scary the older you get but it can be done. The PL/SQL syntax was all new to me but the structure reminded me of ADA and little like SAS or SPSS-long ago languages that I once knew. When they started explaining how to refine your code by creating and calling procedures and functions and sub programs it was the same stuff I learned 40 years ago. I guess what I'm trying to say good programming practices will follow you no matter what the language of the day is.
>Sammie
>ps I used to live in Saint-Pryve-Saint-Mesmin which is just across the river from Orleans. My wife and I loved it there.
Sammie