>>>if I'm not wrong you and Tracy are a C#, Kevin Goff a SQL developer. People used chatter more than VFP section since last years...
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>>>I think that you are mistaken about Tamar. AFAIK, she does over 90% VFP and has begun to learn SQL Server recently. To the best of my knowledge, Tamar does not do any .NET programming.
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>>>>has begun to learn SQL Server recently
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>>I'd had been been working with SQL Server since 2000 (or thought I had been)
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>>I learned more about SQL Server syntax in one session last year when Tamar did a presentation on that subject than I had learned in all the years up to that point.
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>Question - prior to the SQL session, how much dedicated effort were you putting in on learning T-SQL, prior to that presentation?

Good question.
The short answer is- not very much.
I've always admired people - you and Tamar for example - who learn these things for the sake of learning them, but that's not in my DNA,
I make strategic decision early - like switching to SQL Server or .NET but I've just learned what I needed to solve the problem at hand and get the bill to the client.
If I hear about something that works better, the next time I need something like that, I use it.
That's why I go to conferences and read posts here.
Tamar talked about CTE's and soon after I had a problem that they solved perfectly.
Lots of good stuff in these new releases, but I'm not the kind of person that will read about them without a billable problem in front of me that forces me to find a new way to do something.

Not perfect, I know, but I got some pretty good - far from perfect- but pretty good- systems running out there.