OK, I'll admit right up front that this blog isn't really about DBs at all. I just wanted to tell a quick story. About 12yrs ago or so now, I was working in a call center. There were hundreds of us in the building spanning several floors, and prob a good couple hundred of us on a single floor. I got into a argument with a couple guys one day on the validity of learning keyboard shortcuts in lieu of the mouse. I OK, I’ll admit right up front that this blog isn’t really about DBs at all. I just wanted to tell a quick story.About 12yrs ago or so now, I was working in a call center. There were hundreds of us in the building spanning several floors, and prob a good couple hundred of us on a single floor. I got into a argument with a couple guys one day on the validity of learning keyboard shortcuts in lieu of the mouse. I felt that everyone should learn keyboard shortcuts, and they didn’t see any reason why it would ever be necessary.Well, a couple days later I went through the entire floor and stole all the mouse balls. Every single one. There wasn’t a mouse ball anywhere on the entire floor. The next day, I sat back and watched as an entire floor of tech support people were rendered completely helpless because they never bothered learning the simplest of keyboard shortcuts. The emails started rolling in… whoever took the mouse balls, it’s very funny. Now bring them back….etc… they started out very nice and all, but then got very caustic. About 4hrs into the day they started distributing cheat sheets for keyboard shortcuts to everyone since nobody could really even open their email without their mouse. So things were a little slow for a day or so, but then people started getting the hang of it, and actually didn’t mind so much. About a week or so later they were able to get the mice up and running again, but I noticed that some guys still used the keyboard a lot… including the 2 guys that started this whole thing. They found how much easier it was to keep your hands in one place.Now, I didn’t really start that whole thing with the intention of actually teaching anyone a lesson, but I think it worked out well enough. And I’m only bringing this up now because I found that sack of mouse balls in my garage a while back and it made me giggle for a few minutes.Oddly enough though, I judge a lot of apps these days by how many keyboard shortcuts they put in. Do you want my hands to be productive, or moving back and forth all day? Anyway, thought you guys might like that story.And oddly enough, that’s the first time I’ve ever told anyone that story. Databases