Originally posted by Sockpuppet
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhich idiot wrote this crap - it is double my usual rate
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostI frequently see crappy access databases like that, more often than not because the client is having a problem with it (again) and wants me to have a look when I've got a bit of spare time.
Usually my response is "Which idiot wrote this crap?"
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In their defence, and no I never wrote any app-bases, they did what they needed to do, brought mail merge and report generation to the masses and at a fraction of the cost of the big boy solutions. Also infinitely more flexible.
Wouldn't do it these days but can't help thinking if MS designed a Web version of Access based on a limited implementation of SQL Server and ASP.NET + IIS, they'd make yet more squillions. Probably not worth the investment for them in reality.
Anyone want to go into business with me to make it?
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Originally posted by Shimano105 View PostYes but I believe that Access nowadays is a different beast to back then (does it use a form of SQL Server?).
In the past with JET you were essential using a single file with some attempt at locking and claiming it was an enterprise level database! This file also contained all the code.
It was never a good idea to mix code with tables, anyone who was any good never did that!
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Originally posted by Shimano105 View PostYes but I believe that Access nowadays is a different beast to back then (does it use a form of SQL Server?).
In the past with JET you were essential using a single file with some attempt at locking and claiming it was an enterprise level database! This file also contained all the code.
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Yes but I believe that Access nowadays is a different beast to back then (does it use a form of SQL Server?).
In the past with JET you were essential using a single file with some attempt at locking and claiming it was an enterprise level database! This file also contained all the code.
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Originally posted by Sockpuppet View PostThe last client I was at I wrote a access db to control the ordering for Central Europe. Thats around 600 stores a few billion pounds a year.
All the buyers have a sheet to "range" products. They select what they are going to buy selling prices click upload and it orders them for it.
Simple. Its how its written not what its made in.
*sockpuppet rises several notches in estimation*
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostThat peoplesoft stuff is not that bad. Fortunately you will be fused into a proper technology shortly
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The last client I was at I wrote a access db to control the ordering for Central Europe. Thats around 600 stores a few billion pounds a year.
All the buyers have a sheet to "range" products. They select what they are going to buy selling prices click upload and it orders them for it.
Simple. Its how its written not what its made in.
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostHmm - I don't really want to talk about some of my "skeletons"
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostHmm - I don't really want to talk about some of my "skeletons"
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Originally posted by Shimano105 View PostI'll start:
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Them were the days - money for old rope!
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostAnd just like plumbers. Tradesmen everywhere they just love telling you how stupid you were to use the idiot "what did that". These people really irritate me. Why cant they dispense with the humiliation bit identify the problem and then sort it out.
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