I believe he has already published "Dummies for Oracle8i".
At 2/27/02, you wrote:
>Buy him the 'Oracle8i For Dummies' as your departing gift, and suggest that
>he does this himself...
>Heck, if he can "design" it, let him have the privilege of "building" it as
>well :)
>
>Good Luck...
>
>- Kirti
>
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>
>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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