You have this decree in writing?
Okay, once you get that. Do what he wants, making sure everyone knows
that this great new database design and application are all his idea
(do this with a smile, with enthusiasm if you can manage it)
hang on and wait for it all to fall apart.
Otherwise, do you have any friends or connections in the user base? or
to his manager? Write up, without emotion, what you see as the problems
to this approach. Be very logical, with explicit reasons (not "this is
crap")
pass it around. and be prepared to make an enemy
- Don <dondealy_at_teleport.com> wrote:
> I've lost patience, my temper, and I'm about to quit a job because
> the IT
> manager has decreed that we will have "his" data warehouse running
> within
> 24 hours, and we will use his design.
>
> 1 - We are NOT to use any kind of views, not even materailzed views.
> 2 - we are not to do any computations, summaries or rollups
> 3 - we are to have everything in one table
> 4 - "the" table name and column names will be meaningful to any clerk
> 5 - we are not to "start" or "snowflake" designs. "That's just a
> bunch of
> high power talk."
> 6 - all users will be trained to use MS Access to get at "their"
> data. (These are users that were just converted off from "green
> screen"
> teminals within the last 45-days, to Windows 98 with 64k RAM.)
> 7 - We are not to just copy the legacy transactions.
> 8 - We are to load into "an" Oracle table, all legacy transction data
>
> because "we don't want to limit how or what a user will look at"
> 9 - It is not necessary to talk with the users to see what data they
> want
> to look at, or the atomic level. "They are smart enough to fighure
> this
> out on their own. We just need to provide them the data."
> 10 - There shall be no long term maintenance required by "the" dw.
>
>
> Any ideas on how to deal with this situation?
>
> For tomorrow, I've done a CTAS from a materialized view that we
> created to
> support one departments known requirements.
>
>
> Don
>
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