Tables that should not be...
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Eight years ago I created a table to keep a user from asking me for data every time they wanted to run a report. A second person wanted the same data for a different reason. I am sure you see where I am going.... Today the table has morphed into a major repository for data used by many processes. It was never well thought out as I point out frequently. To top it off, some of the data is created by "fuzzy" logic as there is no direct correlation between two bits of information they want to store. Just a rant as the CIO just talked about using the table for reports, and I wanted to vent.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Eight years ago I created a table to keep a user from asking me for data every time they wanted to run a report. A second person wanted the same data for a different reason. I am sure you see where I am going.... Today the table has morphed into a major repository for data used by many processes. It was never well thought out as I point out frequently. To top it off, some of the data is created by "fuzzy" logic as there is no direct correlation between two bits of information they want to store. Just a rant as the CIO just talked about using the table for reports, and I wanted to vent.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Eight years ago I created a table to keep a user from asking me for data every time they wanted to run a report. A second person wanted the same data for a different reason. I am sure you see where I am going.... Today the table has morphed into a major repository for data used by many processes. It was never well thought out as I point out frequently. To top it off, some of the data is created by "fuzzy" logic as there is no direct correlation between two bits of information they want to store. Just a rant as the CIO just talked about using the table for reports, and I wanted to vent.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
That'l teach you to hack something together for a user. 4 years down the track they want to move it to the core reporting structure and you KNOW it is crap. I have just spent the last couple months writing forecast system whose data source is... excel. EVERY meeting I go into I tell them it is a disaster looking for a desk to happen on, every time I get told to just build the bloody thing. As MM would say FFAaaaaarrrrK!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Call it "SkyNet", and open it up to the web...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
