[AccessD] Summer Intern Software:(

Haha,
I'm glad I'm not the only one...
Had once a freelance developer working for me.
His work look fine and working. Until I started adding some code.
I saw same thingq, no relations, inconsistant fieldnames, mixture of
techniques trough eachother, double and triple and quadruple code for
same thing... type converison errors, mixing variables with eachother...
 
Had to redo multiple stuff. Lost at least two weeks of work and I'm
still terrified when I need to look into to a new issue...
 
Erwin
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Nancy Lytle [mailto:nancy.lytle at auatac.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:30 PM
	To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
	Subject: [AccessD] Summer Intern Software:(
	
	
	 f>>>>ine piece of summer intern engineering.<<<<
	 
	Boy, does that have me laughing and crying right now.
	I have just been given a database that was developed by a summer
intern who had absolutely no experience with Access before he started
this project.  There is no documentation, except for some sheet laying
out of schedule of when milestones were to be met. 
	And I was told it should be ready to give to the users within a
week. Well it has been a week now and I am discovering some major
issues, fields are named inconsistently across the database (trans_num
in one table, doc_num in another - they are supposed to be the same
thing),  there 9 different queries, 9 reports with the only difference
being the year and category.., plus other duplicates of reports, queries
and tables, no relationships were set up, and although the database is
for financial analysis of money into and out of projects and tasks
within projects, I can find no code that actually updates the data in
the tables, just some code in the reports.  I am going crazy.
	Have any of you (or most) run into this type of situation.  If
so how to you make the client realize that if they want a database that
works there will need to be some major revamping needed that will take
some time.
	The client thinks it works okay, but that is because she is
testing it with static data and not testing it dynamically by doing data
entry.
	TIA,
	Nancy  
	 
	
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