> > >Ach, I spent a recent weekend repairing a database that got corrupted

when

> > >a thunderstorm outage fzappt-ed a chunk of hard disk where a couple of
> > >pages of the company's database pages happened to be. Thunderstorms

sans

> > >rain, natch, in a place that's locked in a three-year drought...company
> > >does backups in wet years...the Lord doth work in mysterious ways, his
> > >wonders to perform...
> > >
> > >
> >Please Helen! This sort of religious talk
>
> This is *religious* talk?
>
> >is at least off-topic here,
> >and could be downright offensive to any who do not share your religious
> >views...
>
> What complete nonsense. I defy anyone to determine WHAT my religious

views

> are, from my quoting perhaps the most-often quoted line from any hymn in
> the English tradition!!
>
> >If I were to post something on a religious topic in this list, everyone
> >would tell me I'm off-topic -- and rightly so.
>
> FYI, this was and still is NOT a religious topic. And, FYI, in the English
> legal tradition an Act of God is not a religious topic, it is a
> legally-recognised phenomenon. A drought is an Act of God. A

thunderstorm

> is an Act of God.

Go see the movie, go see the movie!

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com