Re: DATABASE LINKS

Rose wrote:

>I am working for the Business Investigation Department. They requested
>a database link to production so they can perform their research to
>the production environment through this database link.
>Their investigation consists of procedures that read files of any
>number between 50,000 to 1,000,000 records and perform queries against
>the production database - one by one. Since their customers make about
>twenty to thirty different requests every day, they don't have time to
>make up test data. Therefore they also wish to test their procedure
>with production data using this same databalink link.
>
>I believe this whole thing to be crazy. Can someone give me some very
>good technical explanation and/or point me to somewhere I can get a
>technical paper of something I can give to my boss to stop my boss?
>
>

Total insanity. Point you to something? How about bone-head IS/IT managment. Course 100
for those that failed the Boolean logic question "When does 1 equal 1?"

Unless you think you can torpedo this idiocy without losing your job tell them they can have
exactly what they want as soon as they respond to a tactfully worded memo you send to them
appraising them of the risk, appraising them of the fact that your advice is not to do it, and asking
them to accept full responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Asking people to sign their names to pieces of paper on which they accept "full responsibility" often
has more power than all the reasoned arguments that can be constructed.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
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