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[Jaks]

Hi all

just a few words - relatively active access developer, only for our own company's internal main admin system. It's not my main job so mostly evenings but the system has become quite crucial to our lives.. fell into that as 20 yrs agree did a degree in IT so know enough about relational databases to hack something together. love a bit of tennis& watersports & cycling & gaming.
cheers

 

[Jon]

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[NauticalGent]

Welcome aboard!

 

[jdraw]

Welcome to AWF, Jaks!

 

[theDBguy]

Hi. Welcome to AWF!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

Don't you just HATE it when someone that someone "cobbled together" suddenly becomes almost crucial to the operation of your office or division or whole company? That has happened to me at least three times. Once, I did the cobbling (not in Access) and kept it RELATIVELY clean so it was easier to maintain than some throw-together patchwork quilt. Twice, someone else started the project, but then got a better job out of state so he gave notice and the boss asked around if anyone else in the department knew Access. The first time that happened, two of us did, but the other guy was saturated - and he left shortly after that anyway. That was MY introduction to the commercial/business side of Access.

Fortunately, since most of my other work was rarely at the "do it yesterday" level of urgency, I had a way to shoe-horn in the required fixups in the first Access case. Which was good because the guy who threw that first case together didn't understand normalization. I'm now retired eight years and it STILL makes me grit my teeth to remember that mess that LOOKED like someone had thrown spaghetti on the wall.