3 months after the layoff...

I spent 2 years of my life working on a successful migration from Access 97
to SQL Server 2000.
Redesign of the schemas. Redesign & rewrites of all their applications,
from VBA to .NET. All successful and ontime.
Then they laid off our entire department.
I just got a message from one of my former co-workers: Apparently, now that
they laid off all the programmers and SQL people, they no longer have anyone
that knows SQL Server, so the company called one of my former bosses on the
telephone (who also got laid off) and asked what it would take to stuff 170
GB back into MS Access.
<hand slapping forehead>
There are just not words.
Peace & happy computing,
Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
Owner, vbSensei.Com
"Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSenseiYour post made my day.
Send them your resume with an application to provide consulting services at
4 times your previous hourly rate. Move everything back to Access for them.
When they realize Access cant possibly handle the load, double your price
and move it back to SQL server again.
"Mike Labosh" <mlabosh_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OOQslkYWGHA.3800@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I spent 2 years of my life working on a successful migration from Access
97
> to SQL Server 2000.
> Redesign of the schemas. Redesign & rewrites of all their applications,
> from VBA to .NET. All successful and ontime.
> Then they laid off our entire department.
> I just got a message from one of my former co-workers: Apparently, now
that
> they laid off all the programmers and SQL people, they no longer have
anyone
> that knows SQL Server, so the company called one of my former bosses on
the
> telephone (who also got laid off) and asked what it would take to stuff
170
> GB back into MS Access.
> <hand slapping forehead>
> There are just not words.
> --
>
> Peace & happy computing,
> Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
> Owner, vbSensei.Com
> "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei
>
>|||> Send them your resume with an application to provide consulting services
> at
> 4 times your previous hourly rate. Move everything back to Access for
> them.
> When they realize Access cant possibly handle the load, double your price
> and move it back to SQL server again.
No, THAT post made my day. I think I could live on 488K / year :) Plus,
if you thought all the bizarreness you've seen me post before was
entertaining, just wait till I figure out a way to *successfully* put 170GB
back into access LOL!
--
Peace & happy computing,
Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
Owner, vbSensei.Com
"Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei|||Did they explicitly specify they need it done *successfully*? :)
ML
http://milambda.blogspot.com/|||Mike wrote on Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:11:44 -0400:

> No, THAT post made my day. I think I could live on 488K / year :) Plus,
> if you thought all the bizarreness you've seen me post before was
> entertaining, just wait till I figure out a way to *successfully* put
> 170GB back into access LOL!
How about 86 mdb files - 85 with 2GB of data each, and 1 with linked tables
to the other 85 :P
Dan|||> How about 86 mdb files - 85 with 2GB of data each, and 1 with linked
> tables to the other 85 :P
Yup, that's precisely what they had before I arrived. I can hear Darth
Vader in the back of my brain: "The circle is now complete, Obi Wan..."
There is a certain masochistic part of me that is just ITCHING to redesign a
dumpster-full of .NET code into Access macros just to prove it can be done.
Think MS Press will publish my memoirs?
--
Peace & happy computing,
Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
Owner, vbSensei.Com
"Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei|||Now you've already mentioned enough reasons to just go and do it. If you
don't someone else on this NG will. :)
ML
http://milambda.blogspot.com/|||"Stuffing" 180 GB into an MS Access database is the easy part. It's
retreiving the data from MS Access that's the hard part.
"Mike Labosh" <mlabosh_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OOQslkYWGHA.3800@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I spent 2 years of my life working on a successful migration from Access 97
>to SQL Server 2000.
> Redesign of the schemas. Redesign & rewrites of all their applications,
> from VBA to .NET. All successful and ontime.
> Then they laid off our entire department.
> I just got a message from one of my former co-workers: Apparently, now
> that they laid off all the programmers and SQL people, they no longer have
> anyone that knows SQL Server, so the company called one of my former
> bosses on the telephone (who also got laid off) and asked what it would
> take to stuff 170 GB back into MS Access.
> <hand slapping forehead>
> There are just not words.
> --
>
> Peace & happy computing,
> Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
> Owner, vbSensei.Com
> "Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei
>
>|||> Now you've already mentioned enough reasons to just go and do it. If you
> don't someone else on this NG will. :)
Terrific! They can be on the devteam. Tell me, do you have the guts to
work on a project with me, where we redesign God's entire universe as a
series of .txt files with .bat automation? hehe
I was the guy that out-argued any C++ programmer in any argument that went
like this: "You can't do [xyz] in VB"
Baloney. That's all the prompting I needed to do it. Huh? Graphics
programming in SQL? Done. So let's get moving on sending them a proposal
for an obscene amount of money :)
--
Peace & happy computing,
Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
Owner, vbSensei.Com
"Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei|||> "Stuffing" 180 GB into an MS Access database is the easy part. It's
> retreiving the data from MS Access that's the hard part.
Huh. I hadn't even thought of that. Just imagine the irony of one of the
server admins in PA, USA having to send an email to the help-desk in India
about how the file server right next to him is thrashing the RAID stack.
--
Peace & happy computing,
Mike Labosh, MCSD MCT
Owner, vbSensei.Com
"Escriba coda ergo sum." -- vbSensei