Re: Accessing data from an MS access db from an Oracle UNIX server

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:58:01 -0800
Message-ID: <1069959510.27811@yasure>

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On 27 Nov 2003 09:45:13 -0800, andrea_at_mun.ca (Andrea M. Segovia)
> wrote:
>
>

>>"User
>>and management education" is probably a better way to address this,
>>but in my experience, this does not happen overnight.

>
>
> I think you are wrong. Most of the people responding here have been
> suffering for years from people who don't have any experience and are
> asked by management (which doesn't have a clue about databases either)
> to design a database. Experience dictates those 'developers' usually
> know better and don't *want* to be educated. They can point and click
> and that is sufficient. On the other hand if they want to be educated
> they leave the company before getting anywhere, after which they are
> replaced by someone else inexperienced, leaving you with their mess.
> To get through to these people the only thing which helps is getting
> quite explicit. If that might be considered as 'rude', so be it.
>
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

And I think you, Sybrand, are correct.

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