[AccessD] Access I love it

Tony Septav iggy at nanaimo.ark.com
Fri Jul 3 08:56:21 CDT 2009


Hey Susan
Yes I bet we could fill a week of EMails on this list with client horror 
stories.
Clients are scary. But you nod your head and smile, when in the back or 
your mind you are thinking "Are you frickin nuts...".  I have been lucky 
most of my client's are pretty good folks.


Susan Harkins wrote:

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