[AccessD] Access I love it

LOL.  Damned clients!

He might have been cooking the books too.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Susan Harkins wrote:
> 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. 
>