Bernard is a relative newcomer to blogging and the SQL community. You could say he's been off the grid and only rarely ventures out on Facebook. He has worked as a programmer/DBA for Memorial Hospital in South Bend, IN since 1993, where he authored a surgery reservation system that was in use for over 10 years. Prior to that he worked for Carleton Finanacial Computations and wrote software for companies such as the Ohio Division of Consumer Finance and Chrysler Finance.