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

Francisco H Tapia my.lists at verizon.net
Wed May 26 17:55:24 CDT 2004


DWUTKA at marlow.com wrote On 5/26/2004 3:37 PM:

>There ya go, throwing fuel on the fire! <evilgrin>
>
>Actually, it's kind of a battle over 'bad practice' again.  JC and I have
>both been burned (In my case several times, within just the past few months)
>by a previous developer setting some arbitrary field size limit.  However,
>the only issue we have heard so far with setting it to 255 was Charlotte had
>a Query too complex error, which is intriguing, to say the least.  But I
>haven't heard other incidents like that, so it may have been an isolated
>incident.
>  
>
How were you burned? you just had to increase a field size, how 
difficult was that?

-- 
-Francisco





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