Reggie Mosely was a friend of mine and he taught me most everything I know about databases. Reggie was the only person I knew that could somehow relate everything in life to a Transact-SQL Statement. And he would go on; to ask Reggie a question was to be a petitioner at the Oracle of Delphi. You don't ask the Oracle to hurry it up. You sit there while it divulges at length, all the intricate possibilities, angles and consequences of any possible answer. I learned not to ask Reggie questions lightly :-).

It was through Reggie's tultilage in creating databases for differnt types of organizations, understanding businesses and departments and people all as entities, interelating relationally, hierachichally that I received, from a safe place, an education about the world in which we live; about its data and its people and its relationships. Reggie taught me to never delete data. "Archive, flag it, back it up somewhere but never delete it because believe me, one day, no matter what they said, the client is gonna call you up and ask for that data." Reggie taught me to never forget.

JOIN and UNION are conepts that I've learned to apply to life. For that and so much more, Thank you Reggie.

With Love,

Raja Afrika