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It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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!
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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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charlieg wrote: but to start re-writing stuff on her second day there?
If one is not engaged exactly to do that, that's the best way to not pass the training time.
M.D.V. 
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Yeah, right, the moron excuse is to always blame the woman.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yeah, right, the feminazi excuse is to always blame the man.
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He is not blaming the woman, he is blaming the person that in the first day at work says the one in charge of the training "that's a crappy old fashioned thing and I can do better".
If a man had done it, my answer would have been exactly the same. If you are not hired to do exactly that, then shut the f*** up at least until you are in for some months
M.D.V.
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Maximilien wrote: Old misogynistic bugger feeling intellectually and professionally challenged by a younger (I assume) women starts bullying her.
Description says that she was in a training class. Not an architecture meeting tasked with mapping out the future of the company.
And given it was a training class for MS Access I can only wonder what the intent of instructor and student was. As a student, I wouldn't suppose that myself I would actually need training on MS Access. It would be nice to be introduced to the layout but I most definitely would not be challenging the structure on the first day.
And I have been working with databases for more than 30 years.
Conversely as an instructor either the students are expected to have no knowledge or they are experienced professionals. With no knowledge then they should do nothing but learn. As experienced professionals they should already understand the nature of legacy applications and the intent of an introductory session. Neither of those types of students should be challenging the architecture.
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jschell wrote: With no knowledge then they should do nothing but learn. As experienced professionals they should already understand the nature of legacy applications and the intent of an introductory session. Neither of those types of students should be challenging the architecture.
At least not until you are in enough time to understand the legacies, frames, history and have already built a name in the company.
I have re-built things a couple of times in projects that were going bad and ended faster than trying to fix the previous mess.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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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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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! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 6-Oct-17 9:09am.
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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
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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
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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kmoorevs wrote: 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.
Exactly.
kmoorevs wrote: It may be old tech, but it works
Rather certain Oracle is older.
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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!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I can't disagree much. You don't show up at a new job and immediately start telling people they should redo everything using something you prefer, no matter what the pros and cons might be.
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dandy72 wrote: You don't show up at a new job and immediately start telling people they should redo everything using something you prefer, no matter what the pros and cons might be.
To be fair those that are ignorant and inexperienced might do that.
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So is this what happened here?
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kmoorevs wrote: I'm an old guy
Not as old as this guy[^].
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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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.
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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? 
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.
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Why? You can create relationships between tables in Access.
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.
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Relationships don't make something hierarchical. In Access if you have Order and OrderItem they are two different tables and if you want the Order you do a look-up on Order and if you want the OrderItem you do another lookup using OrderID as a where filter. They are separate buckets of info. With Mongo the data is stored in a hierarchal manner. So once you find the Order, that order has a collection of OrderItems directly inside it.
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