Vin

>>Many UT posts assume that all of us run our business (or department, or consulting business) the same way -- we don't<<

In posting the example you quote, I am not saying that everybody works this way, I am mooting examples where RVs may have a place. My next step is to grow the example into a multi-backend scenario.

Why? Because intellectual curiosity requires a response to the absolute insistence made by a certain person that RVs are no good- "dumb down" and "po dunk application" are some of the pejoratives that spring to mind, along with ongoing triumphant ad-hominam slurs.

Of course we all do things differently, that is why I see it as inappropriate for a party to insist that their way, and only their way, is always correct.

I agree, this has gone long enough. I think there is enough information on the Wiki for people to make up their own minds.

Regards

JR