Simplest but most idiotic bit of "programming" I've come across was in a MS Reporting Services report dataset. Instead of taking the VAT amount for the invoice from the Table the consultant (had to be one of them) from the ERP supplier had coded
TOTGOODVAL * 1.175 AS VATVAL
This sort of worked, for UK sales only, right up until the point when the VAT rate changed. The fields TOTGOODVAL and TOTVATVAL are right next to each other in the table.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
