Guys Not really a .net specific post, but I thought I'd share anyway.
I'm working on a database at the moment that is used to record heart rates and other biometric data in high intensity exercise scenarios. We're working with an offshore company, creating what is essentially a copy of part of their existing database, with modifications to suit our particular requirements. The guy at the other end said he would give me a database diagram together with a dump of the relevant data into Excel so that I could see how it all hangs together. First off, he tried to shoehorn the data from about 20 different SQL tables into a single spreadsheet. Not a workbook with multiple sheets, a single sheet. I could probably live with that, except he grabbed the wrong data before he sent it to me. Instead of heart rate and respiratory data, I got a set of tables that provided links to porn sites and sex videos, handbag sales, pharmaceuticals, products made from Canadian geese, hair loss tonics, gambling sites, horse racing, Viagra and Cialis, and a variety of other things. It was clearly a data set that is used as the basis for a spam sending application. Talk about busted! I should be pissed off with them for wasting my time, but I'm laughing too hard. Needless to say I'll not be taking anything they say seriously from now on! Cheers Grant
