[AccessD] On DB Bloat, Bad DB Design, and various

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Tue May 25 08:29:48 CDT 2004


Hi Stuart

well, you and several contributors to this thread - with Arthur
and Scott as the bright exceptions - should join a club of weeping
school girls. Now come on and get professional as is the general
attitude of our fellow listers.

If you design an app wrongly, you'll of course have to fix it; if some
standard is changed, say postal codes for a country goes from x to y
format and you couldn't know, the client has to pay. If your app is
out in big numbers, you would offer an update.

Since when has distributing an update been a problem?

/gustav


> 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.




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