>I'd had been been working with SQL Server since 2000 (or thought I had been)
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>Sorry for my mistake, then. I have attended most of your sessions from 2000 until 2008. IIRC, those sessions were about using VFP's SQL syntax (which, as you know is a VERY different animal from T-SQL syntax).
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That was Bill who said he'd been doing SQL Server since 2000.

>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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>I am sure that you did. IIRC, Tamar first began giving T_SQL (as opposed to "using SQL Server from VFP) perhaps in 20012 but I am sure that I heard her give one in 2013. I figured that the 2013 session was the first one that she had given on the topic since she could not seem to use the proper terminology for basic things while giving the session.

I fiddled with MySQL and SQL Server late in the last decade, but didn't feel like I had enough experience to contribute on the subject until around 2012.

Tamar