[AccessD] Access banned; VBA skills at new lows...

That represents how valuable they think skills in supporting MS Office
are.  Support personnel are typically underpaid, but this is ridiculous.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl
Collins
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:43 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access banned; VBA skills at new lows...

$12 USD an hour?....

uh huh...

is that typical now??  I am pretty shocked actually.  You would get more
sweeping streets or flipping burgers here.

...

darryl.



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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 5:23 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Access banned; VBA skills at new lows...

I was at a client site yesterday where myself and the business manager
met with the IT "team".
Well, it turns out, we were going to create a quick-and-dirty mini
datamart for reporting purposes.
However, IT said : "No more work in Access is permitted"
Apparently in the recent past, some rogue Access apps were using ODBC
connections to their live, REALTIME SQL Server databases, and
performance really took a hit. The queries ran in a loop as they were
poorly designed and constructed. So one stupid programmer ruined it all
for everyone !
Nonetheless, we'll just use SQL Server Reporting Services to format and
consolidate the data into a SQL Server table and then download it to
Excel.
Excel has not been banned (yet).
However, in our neck of the woods in this economy, pay rates continue to
drop to ridiculous levels as noted by this ad:
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/tch/1116061032.html
I know, I know...the ever-so-awful craigslist.
I hate it too.