[AccessD] Access I love it

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 08:45:49 CDT 2009


They said "One stipulation the new
> program has to maintain the look and feel of the original  worksheet".

=====My war story: A client using an old db program needed (really, wanted) 
sequential id numbers. To accomplish that, he'd been reusing pk values for 
years -- when he would delete a record, he would write down the number and 
then enter that number for the next record's id value -- totally insane.

He was furious when my Access interface didn't allow him to reuse numbers. I 
kept explaining that it was totally unnecessary. He just didn't get it, and 
we never finished the project. Now, I had accommodated him in that each 
record displayed a sequential id number automatically --  but that wasn't 
good enough, he wanted control, he wanted the ability to enter deleted id 
values himself. I refused. He fired me. In retrospect, I should've given him 
what he wanted, allowed him to go through the process... it wouldn't have 
mattered, I was already using an AutoNumber pk that he couldn't see, so 
wouldn't have meant balls... he was insane and I just didn't think fast 
enough on my feet.

Susan H. 




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