[geeks] Oh my god...

Sat Nov 30 19:33:27 CST 2002

On Fri, 2002年11月29日 at 12:40, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:
> > And he also probably hasn't seen the pure horror of applications
> > written in access actually trying to be used to do real work. (Note
> > that i said TRYING, shit never works, but the "developers" have great
> > job security until someone around there gets a clue.)
>> My company is stressing Access in ways it should never be stressed - we
> have gotten error messages that the database is too large!

We have at least one that's over a Gig as i recall.
> For small one-off projects it is fine, but for larger installations
> (like, more than one simultaneous user), something larger is strongly
> suggested).

Oh, the solution to that according to our "developers" is to have a
login script that copies down the App to every user's PC.
God i'm glad there's one more day before monday.
	-Dan Sikorski