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On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:52:07 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> But I wrote a C program in a couple of hours that would do the job, and
> do it in about an hour, so after three iterations to sort out the
> unpleasantness of town names like 'John O' Groats' and a few other
> issues, I had my database...

Ah, old John...  We had a utility to export data to a SQL Server database. 
It wasn't the mist important thing in the world so it was a couple of 
months before someone noticed missing data. The utility would get to 
"Pete's Garage", fail, rollback the transactions, and exit daily. It was a 
persistent little bugger.