Just make sure it's documented that the original idea is NOT yours :)
- "Mercadante, Thomas F" <Thomas.Mercadante_at_Labor.State.Ny.Us> wrote:
> Don,
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> 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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