[AccessD] Access and SQL Server

Michael Mattys michael at mattysconsulting.com
Thu Mar 3 20:22:55 CST 2011


 
Education. Isn't that when we graduate into the rest of life?
I forget who polluted the world, was it the uneducated?

Can we get back to the debate, please?

Michael R Mattys
Business Process Developers
www.mattysconsulting.com


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:14 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access and SQL Server

 >    So I guess we'll just have to leave it then that one of us is educated
and the other not; 
wonder which one that is?

ROTFL.

That would be you.  I have a high school education and some hours of
community college.

Life is strange sometimes.  Circumstances didn't align for me getting a
degree.  My wife has one though, does that count?

So, we have established who is the educated one.

But I have read the books; I just strictly differentiate between academics
and real world.

And I have made my living in designing databases since 1994.  It has been a
good living.  And I have made a living learning and writing applications in
numerous programming languages.  And I read virtually every day to stay
abreast of what I need to know to do my job well.

So let's just say I know your terms, I understand your terms, and I could
care less about your terms.  So whip out the "I'm educated" thing on someone
else 'cause it doesn't do a thing for me.

And by the way you still are not telling us (and Microsoft) what we are
supposed to call this ... 
uh... hm... I don't know what to call it now...

you know... the autoincrement field used as a pointer between tables
thingie.  Man that just sounds so... uneducated.  ;)

Believe me I *do* want to know so that I can avoid the next peeing match.  I
will try to insert your favorite name for this object in the discussion from
here on out.

Just an FYI, I really do know and understand normalization.  I really do
know and understand candidate keys.  I really do search for a candidate key
to cover with a unique index to enforce data uniqueness.  I really do
understand multi-field primary keys.  I made an ... well... I hesitate to
call it... an "educated" decision to *not* use them in favor of the ...

here we go again... that autoincrement field used as a pointer between
tables thingie.

You don't know how sad it makes me to know I can no longer tell people I
make "educated" decisions.  8(

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 3/3/2011 3:10 PM, Jim Dettman wrote:
> John,
>
> <<  So to get into a peeing match about my calling this thing a PK is 
> just silly.>>
>
>    That's not the point.
>
> <<As far as I can tell, Jim is tilting at windmills.>>
>
>    So I guess we'll just have to leave it then that one of us is 
> educated and the other not; wonder which one that is?
>
> Jim.
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