>>>>>Or you can completely skip the views and go directly for cursoradapter, which does all of that but more openly, and much more under your control, so you can do whatever you want on any of before* or after* events (qv in help for CA).
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>>>>Lately I've been thawing to the idea of using GUIDs for PKs. Makes it easier to consolidate databases from multiple sites, or do consolidated reporting. Even if the customer originally swore up and down they would never need that ;)
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>>>Just today I remembered a similar story... about 25 years ago we were writing a water billing app in Hungary. It was one of those things they said will never happen: "you calculate the amout as per the price for the month", and we said "what if the price changes during the month?", "that will never happen". Of course it happened within the year. Hungary had only about 30% inflation at the time, and we were just fresh out of earning our collective doctorships on the subject. Should have placed a bet.
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>>According to https://www.worlddata.info/europe/serbia/inflation-rates.php , Serbia had some high inflation rates in the late '90s.
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>No, early 90s, 1992-1993. Actually the crazy circus ended on 24. january 1994. when the fiat funny money was replaced with fiat firm money. In that last year, the rate curve was exponential exponential, i.e. if you apply logarithm twice to it, you get a rather straight line.
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>Fun fact: I really don't remember how we survived.
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>Or, a story from the guy who plastered our walls, after a brief career in selling southern fruit from a kiosk at the green market. He said he didn't have the imagination for the job. He'd get his fruit in the morning, paid, marked it up outrageously, sold all he had, and the next day he didn't have enough money to pay for the next batch. He didn't have the imagination to picture tomorrow's wholesale price, so no matter how he skinned his customers throughout the day, the next morning he was in the red. So he went into masonry, there you could charge in german marks, because it was off the books.

That table only went back to 1995. Do you remember the rates in the early '90s? Was it hyperinflation like Venezuela is suffering now (Forbes claims 80,000% in 2018)? https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevehanke/2019/01/01/venezuelas-hyperinflation-hits-80000-per-year-in-2018/

Whoah - this article claims it was "beyond calculation": https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-07-30-1993211045-story.html

Wikipedia claims it was 8.51 x 10^29 percent per year (!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_dinar