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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
Old misogynistic bugger feeling intellectually and professionally challenged by a younger (I assume) women starts bullying her. She should report him to her manager (and/or HR); if they do not get involve, she should start looking for a better job.
I'd rather be phishing!
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I started off application development with Access 2000 databases... badly... I wrote some horrors in VBA that fortunately are no longer roaming the earth, as the company was folded(not due to my VBA I hasten to add).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Old misogynistic bugger feeling intellectually and professionally challenged by a younger (I assume) women starts bullying her. She should report him to her manager (and/or HR); if they do not get involve, she should start looking for a better job.
I'd rather be phishing!
Oh jeeze, talk about throwing the old guy under the bus with 3rd hand comments. We could spin this another way - his wife may be dying of cancer, he was told by HR to train his replacement, and she's just a *itch. I'm sure she's a nice person, I hope his wife is well, and he has a good job, but to start re-writing stuff on her second day there? Maybe time for a little coaching.
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S Houghtelin wrote:
Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000
You can't fix stupid. Access sucks in so many ways...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013This is called legacy code. I love legacy code.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I'm sure the general consensus here will be that Access is evil and should be avoided at all costs. I'll go against the grain here and just say that Access is simply another RDBMS that works perfectly well for small single user applications. It may be old tech, but it works. :) edit: I'm referring mostly to using Access as a database only, not for creating applications...I hate VBA as much as the rest of you! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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S Houghtelin wrote:
Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000
You can't fix stupid. Access sucks in so many ways...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
This is called legacy code. I love legacy code.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Are you a Highly Paid Consultant who charges 10x the cost of a salaried worker when you have to deal with it?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm sure the general consensus here will be that Access is evil and should be avoided at all costs. I'll go against the grain here and just say that Access is simply another RDBMS that works perfectly well for small single user applications. It may be old tech, but it works. :) edit: I'm referring mostly to using Access as a database only, not for creating applications...I hate VBA as much as the rest of you! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
I agree with you - I think Access is fine when used by experienced DBAs and experienced developers. The problems arise when because of it's apparent ease of setup and use - inexperienced people start creating poorly designed databases with lots of VBA and other horrors that I did with Access databases.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I'm an old guy and I'd be pissed if some newbie came in and started telling me how to do my job by fixing something that's not broken! I'd be even more pissed if they wasted my time by showing me examples! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm an old guy and I'd be pissed if some newbie came in and started telling me how to do my job by fixing something that's not broken! I'd be even more pissed if they wasted my time by showing me examples! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm an old guy and I'd be pissed if some newbie came in and started telling me how to do my job by fixing something that's not broken! I'd be even more pissed if they wasted my time by showing me examples! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
He has a point TBH. You can't "migrate" a col\row based database like Access to an hierarchical one like Mongo. Also it's not just the DB but the things that use it....they will need rewritten and retested. Also anyone who says Mongo is easier to maintain than Access would probably get fired on the spot if I had my way. And Mongo more secure? Didn't a whole bunch of companies get their data hacked because Mongo's default security is "off" so anyone can trawl the net for open ports and get what they want? This sounds like fresh-out-of-uni idealism. You have to respect that in the real world we do have ties to old systems and things are done a certain way for a reason, and it's unlikely you'll appreciate that if it's your first day on the job.
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I guess she was told it was a dot net SQL environment they were working in?
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
Tell her we all said, "Welcome to the real world." She needs to just observe and learn the culture for a while before telling the existing employees that they are doing everything "wrong". I still have to delve into Delphi 6 (circa 2000) code that uses Paradox as the database for crying out loud.
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I agree with you - I think Access is fine when used by experienced DBAs and experienced developers. The problems arise when because of it's apparent ease of setup and use - inexperienced people start creating poorly designed databases with lots of VBA and other horrors that I did with Access databases.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
lots of VBA and other horrors that I did with Access databases
I know exactly how you feel. We all have to get started somewhere and Access is that place for me as well. It's a good thing that I did not dwell there for too long. An experienced DBA took me under their wing to teach me all about SQL Server. They were a good teacher and one of the last few people to earn their SQL Server Master's Certification before Microsoft discontinued the program. That being said, I still cringe when people bring up Access. VBA isn't bad, per se, but you shouldn't be building applications with it. Still, after leaning VBA, taking the next step to VB.Net was pretty simple. From there, I was able to draw on a lot of dabbling in C++ to make the leap to C#. Now I build entire applications from front to back on Windows and the Web. I guess you could consider me a multi-stack developer now :laugh:
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He has a point TBH. You can't "migrate" a col\row based database like Access to an hierarchical one like Mongo. Also it's not just the DB but the things that use it....they will need rewritten and retested. Also anyone who says Mongo is easier to maintain than Access would probably get fired on the spot if I had my way. And Mongo more secure? Didn't a whole bunch of companies get their data hacked because Mongo's default security is "off" so anyone can trawl the net for open ports and get what they want? This sounds like fresh-out-of-uni idealism. You have to respect that in the real world we do have ties to old systems and things are done a certain way for a reason, and it's unlikely you'll appreciate that if it's your first day on the job.
F-ES Sitecore wrote:
a col\row based database like Access to an hierarchical one like Mongo
Are you suggesting that Access is not a hierarchical db? :confused:
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
You can't fix stupid.
How true!
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Access sucks in so many ways...
Care to elaborate?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
By what I had to live through, Access itself is not the worst problem. The die hard VBA fans, their culture of tinkering and their typically less than brilliant workarounds are the problem. They have no clue why nobody else came up with such brilliant 'patterns' and feel quite insulted when you must tell them that they have built an unmaintainable mess. If I hear the word 'Access' in an interview, I'm out of there as quickly as I can.I make mistakes only twice: For the first and the last time.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote:
a col\row based database like Access to an hierarchical one like Mongo
Are you suggesting that Access is not a hierarchical db? :confused:
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Yes.
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Yes.
