I agree with Yechiel. You do, after all, work for this guy, and by
extension, the company. You need to learn to pick your fights. In the
larger picture, does it really matter that much? Are your kids at home
going to be disappointed in you if you build this POC? Take the advice of
most of the members of this list. Build this thing as quickly as possible,
and deliver it to the users. It sounds like they :
1). will not use it, so you will get to throw it away in a year
2). will use it, and will be disappointed with it and stop using it - in
which case you get to throw it away in a year
3). once it is built, re-design it the way you want (in a new schema) and,
when the original fails, announce that you have been "studying the matter"
and have a better version waiting to implement. You will become the hero
all the way around. Your boss will be glad that he delivered the first
"warehouse". He will be happy that, when problems arise from the first
version, that you are "on the spot" with version #2 to solve his problems
and make him look good again.
In the meantime, go home, kiss your wife, hug your kids, pet the dog, read a
good book, go for a walk, throw a baseball with your kids, go to the movies
with your wife, and realize that, like food poisoning, this too will pass.
Hope this helps.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:23 AM
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Hello Don
In a more serious mood: DO IT.
I also had some arguments with my boss over the years and except
for 2-3 cases (in 20 years) that I told my boss that I will not do something
and if he wants it he can do it himself, my motto was if he wants to waste
resources for something that is obviously an error let him waste it.
He wants you to waste time and disk space on a system that the users
will not use: waste your time and the resources. He is management and
he is the one who calls the shots.
Just document everything to cover yourself later.
Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
adary_at_mehish.co.il
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [SMTP:dondealy_at_teleport.com]
> Sent: Wed, February 27, 2002 8:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Help!
>
> 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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