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3 months after the layoff...to SQL Server 2000. Redesign of the schemas. Redesign & rewrites of all their applications, from VBA to .NET. All successful and ontime. Then they laid off our entire department. I just got a message from one of my former co-workers: Apparently, now that they laid off all the programmers and SQL people, they no longer have anyone that knows SQL Server, so the company called one of my former bosses on the telephone (who also got laid off) and asked what it would take to stuff 170 GB back into MS Access. <hand slapping forehead> There are just not words. -- Peace & happy computing, Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT Owner, vbSensei.Com "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei Your post made my day.
Send them your resume with an application to provide consulting services at 4 times your previous hourly rate. Move everything back to Access for them. When they realize Access cant possibly handle the load, double your price and move it back to SQL server again. Show quote "Mike Labosh" <mlabosh_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OOQslkYWGHA.3800@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > I spent 2 years of my life working on a successful migration from Access 97 > to SQL Server 2000. > > Redesign of the schemas. Redesign & rewrites of all their applications, > from VBA to .NET. All successful and ontime. > > Then they laid off our entire department. > > I just got a message from one of my former co-workers: Apparently, now that > they laid off all the programmers and SQL people, they no longer have anyone > that knows SQL Server, so the company called one of my former bosses on the > telephone (who also got laid off) and asked what it would take to stuff 170 > GB back into MS Access. > > <hand slapping forehead> > > There are just not words. > > -- > > > Peace & happy computing, > > Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT > Owner, vbSensei.Com > > "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei > > > > Send them your resume with an application to provide consulting services No, THAT post made my day. I think I could live on 488K / year :) Plus, > at > 4 times your previous hourly rate. Move everything back to Access for > them. > > When they realize Access cant possibly handle the load, double your price > and move it back to SQL server again. if you thought all the bizarreness you've seen me post before was entertaining, just wait till I figure out a way to *successfully* put 170GB back into access LOL! -- Peace & happy computing, Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT Owner, vbSensei.Com "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei Mike wrote on Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:11:44 -0400:
>> Send them your resume with an application to provide consulting services How about 86 mdb files - 85 with 2GB of data each, and 1 with linked tables >> at >> 4 times your previous hourly rate. Move everything back to Access for >> them. >> >> When they realize Access cant possibly handle the load, double your price >> and move it back to SQL server again. > > No, THAT post made my day. I think I could live on 488K / year :) Plus, > if you thought all the bizarreness you've seen me post before was > entertaining, just wait till I figure out a way to *successfully* put > 170GB back into access LOL! to the other 85 :P Dan > How about 86 mdb files - 85 with 2GB of data each, and 1 with linked Yup, that's precisely what they had before I arrived. I can hear Darth > tables to the other 85 :P Vader in the back of my brain: "The circle is now complete, Obi Wan..." There is a certain masochistic part of me that is just ITCHING to redesign a dumpster-full of .NET code into Access macros just to prove it can be done. Think MS Press will publish my memoirs? -- Peace & happy computing, Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT Owner, vbSensei.Com "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei Now you've already mentioned enough reasons to just go and do it. If you
don't someone else on this NG will. :) ML --- http://milambda.blogspot.com/ > Now you've already mentioned enough reasons to just go and do it. If you Terrific! They can be on the devteam. Tell me, do you have the guts to > don't someone else on this NG will. :) work on a project with me, where we redesign God's entire universe as a series of .txt files with .bat automation? hehe I was the guy that out-argued any C++ programmer in any argument that went like this: "You can't do [xyz] in VB" Baloney. That's all the prompting I needed to do it. Huh? Graphics programming in SQL? Done. So let's get moving on sending them a proposal for an obscene amount of money :) -- Peace & happy computing, Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT Owner, vbSensei.Com "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei > Terrific! They can be on the devteam. Tell me, do you have the guts to Under the condition that we also do it the right way - with XML. For the > work on a project with me, where we redesign God's entire universe as a > series of .txt files with .bat automation? hehe soul. :) > So let's get moving on sending them a proposal I'm game. We start the bidding at 5 times your former boss's salary. I get > for an obscene amount of money :) 25% plus the flight there. ;) You get 75%, the fame, the glory, and the rest. In anticipation of project #2 (migration back to SQL) we use ADP for the front end. Details later. :) ML --- http://milambda.blogspot.com/ "Stuffing" 180 GB into an MS Access database is the easy part. It's
retreiving the data from MS Access that's the hard part. Show quote "Mike Labosh" <mlabosh_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OOQslkYWGHA.3800@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I spent 2 years of my life working on a successful migration from Access 97 >to SQL Server 2000. > > Redesign of the schemas. Redesign & rewrites of all their applications, > from VBA to .NET. All successful and ontime. > > Then they laid off our entire department. > > I just got a message from one of my former co-workers: Apparently, now > that they laid off all the programmers and SQL people, they no longer have > anyone that knows SQL Server, so the company called one of my former > bosses on the telephone (who also got laid off) and asked what it would > take to stuff 170 GB back into MS Access. > > <hand slapping forehead> > > There are just not words. > > -- > > > Peace & happy computing, > > Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT > Owner, vbSensei.Com > > "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei > > > > "Stuffing" 180 GB into an MS Access database is the easy part. It's Huh. I hadn't even thought of that. Just imagine the irony of one of the > retreiving the data from MS Access that's the hard part. server admins in PA, USA having to send an email to the help-desk in India about how the file server right next to him is thrashing the RAID stack. -- Peace & happy computing, Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT Owner, vbSensei.Com "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei  |
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