Scott Marcus
marcus at tsstech.com
Tue May 25 08:27:59 CDT 2004
I'll answer your question with a question... Do you stick the client with a bill to modify the report because it no longer looks correct (or goes to a second page for 1 character) when the data makes the fields expand? Scott Marcus TSS Technologies, Inc. marcus at tsstech.com (513) 772-7000 -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:57 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] On DB Bloat, Bad DB Design, and various On 25 May 2004 at 7:45, Scott Marcus wrote: > > Someone else mentioned not limiting fields to 2 letters for state > abbreviations. Why not? When the abbreviations jump to 3 letters, I'll > make the field bigger. That's just part of my job. > And who pays for that work to be done? Do you stick the client with a bill for a modification that shouldn't have been needed or do you wear the cost of the time yourself. What if you've got the same app rolled out in lot's of different places. It can get quite expensive to provide updates to all the sites. -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support. -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com