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It's a small company, you can count the staff on the fingers of one hand, plus the odd part-timer, so the stakeholders are pretty much all around the campfire. I agree his objectives are quite vague, he either would rather not commit them to writing, or the entire meetings may just be his...

I intend to give analysis/requirement gathering every chance, and will champion it to the hilt. Start to finish, how long do you think would be adequate, in your judgment? True, but I do hear/read a lot that Sage is a pain in the sphincter to drag meaningful data out of. Might be easier to...

Spike: 1) Don't know. He simply mentioned that he finds Sage "annoyingly unco-operative" at pulling the kind of data out that he wants. Which is fine, I can write a custom sproc for whatever querying requirement he has, but the rest I'll have to ask him; 2) He wants to expand the business...

Hi all, newb here both to this forum and to Access front ends, though I've been a decade in SQL DB Admin so table design won't be a headache (much!). Got a meeting tomorrow with a fellow who runs a small family-staffed wholesalers, pretty much a blank sheet site, processes about 2,000 orders a...

On this very bleak day from a former MSSQL DBA... Was asked by the registration process, "What colour is the sky?". I answered truthfully, "Grey". Apparently the server disagrees, and knowing how most management in my career promoted "Blue-sky" perspectives, I lied and went with the crowd...