[AccessD] Select Exported Files from Access

[Jim Lawrence]

Looking at the number of XP versions still in active duty lets us know how resistant to change so many people have become. 

If you want to see resistance and learn the finer points of negotiation, try to change an office from XP to Linux. ;-)

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "David McAfee" <davidmcafee at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:33:04 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Select Exported Files from Access

Although I've been playing with computers since I was a kid, I didn't get
into programming as a career until the early 90s.

I couldn't stand the database software that we were using (Rbase, btrieve &
great plains)  and decided to make a new
app to handle the Rbase part of it. We, the users always had to write down
certain information on post it pads only to
have to type it in on the next screen. I made sure that went away in my app.


I also started to bring in information from the other software packages and
displaying it on the same screen
so they didn't have to switch between other programs.

The other users LOVED the software as it made their job (phone support)
much easier (more efficient).
I rarely had to negotiate. Changes were understood and well received.

I left the company in 2004 and went to another company for 10 years.

That company, like this one, had many users that did not like change, even
if it made their lives easier.

That's when I became a negotiator. ;)


Now, back to dealing with PK-less tables joined against excel links and
trying to figure out why there are duplicate records :)

Sigh...




On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I suspect when you got into the computer business, you did not think that
> being a first class negotiator was one of your most important job
> requirements. ;-)
>
> Jim
>
>
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