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airspirit · 02-06-2003, 01:20 PM

I get the pleasure of taking a standard Access database and creating an SQL database out of a portion of it. To make things more interesting, I am REQUIRED to do this in Access 2002, and I have neither the developer toolset nor a proper SQL Server to run this thing on. I'm limited to a MSDE 2000 client to handle a business's database, and that has to run on a machine that is used for our web development and is incidentally a fileserver as well. I forsee many problems with this (a sales rep logging on for pr0n when I'm at lunch, crashing the machine, and the dbase going down ... of course it is MY fault), and a whole lot of screwy VB programming to make this work without a proper server.

This is what you get when you have no IT budget and a boss who wants everything for nothing. Next thing you know, he'll want me to create a Windows 2000 Advanced Server to host our web portal in-house (you should have seen him vomit when I tried to explain the concept of Linux to him) using a Pentium 133 and a copy of MSDOS 6.22. Sometimes I wonder if the pay is worth it. *sigh*

02-06-2003, 01:20 PM	#1
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	Reinventing the wheel: SQL I get the pleasure of taking a standard Access database and creating an SQL database out of a portion of it. To make things more interesting, I am REQUIRED to do this in Access 2002, and I have neither the developer toolset nor a proper SQL Server to run this thing on. I'm limited to a MSDE 2000 client to handle a business's database, and that has to run on a machine that is used for our web development and is incidentally a fileserver as well. I forsee many problems with this (a sales rep logging on for pr0n when I'm at lunch, crashing the machine, and the dbase going down ... of course it is MY fault), and a whole lot of screwy VB programming to make this work without a proper server. This is what you get when you have no IT budget and a boss who wants everything for nothing. Next thing you know, he'll want me to create a Windows 2000 Advanced Server to host our web portal in-house (you should have seen him vomit when I tried to explain the concept of Linux to him) using a Pentium 133 and a copy of MSDOS 6.22. Sometimes I wonder if the pay is worth it. sigh __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied