A few years ago, I was a pretty

good Paradox for Windows Developer. 

In fact, I had an article published in Paradox

Informant Magazine in December of 1995 on a series

of applications I wrote to help Quality Assurance

Managers with their ISO 9000 implementations. 

It was called Quality System Administration

(QSA), and had Corrective Action, Corrective Action

Escalation, Calibration and Internal Auditing modules

in it.  It

was pretty cool. 

After I got done with that, I put in a POS System

for a pawnshop in Round Lake Beach, IL, and a Movie

Rental POS system for a small mom and pop-shop video

store in Grayslake, IL. 

I also wrote a Music Catalog and Performance

application for a church I attended. 

It helped them keep track of all of the songs

that were on the church band play list, and allowed

the music minister to create a weekly play list for

the Sunday Service. 

All of these were done under Paradox for Windows 5.x. 

I had the Runtime for it, and was a programming

fool.  After

1997, I started a job at a medical device manufacturer,

and the RDBMS consulting fell to the wayside. 

I haven