Re: suggestions for good graphical DB query builder
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:25:47 +0100
Message-ID: <fcvo7t$2a1$1$8300dec7_at_news.demon.co.uk>
> If you had any REAL experience with investment banking you would know
> that investment bankers are subject to audit restrictions, enforced in
> the US by the FTC, SEC, and laws that are violated by using MS Access
> to produce reports.
May it is true in the US that you cannot use MS Access to produce reports but not here in the UK for those regulated by the FSA.
I've done a lot of work with CRM with a number of investment banks and one of the problems we faced was how to load the data from the spreadsheets and access databases they use to store their contact lists.
I remember one US bank that had a big site here in the UK that was creating one access database per day containing data that they reported back to the LSE, we replaced it using REporting Services.
-- Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson [Ramblings from the field from a SQL consultant] http://sqlserverfaq.com [UK SQL User Community] "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1190343608.834350_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 08:25:47 CEST
> Tony Rogerson wrote:
>> You appear to be totally disconnected from the real world - probably what
>> comes with teaching too long.
>>
>> If you had any current industrial experience, especially in investment
>> banking then you would discover that Access (albeit a pain) and Excel for
>> that matter are both successfully being used by sales traders, salesman
>> and analysts throughout that industry as a database tool.
>
> And if you had any experience with this group you would know that top
> posting is discouraged or ignored.
>
> If you had any REAL experience with investment banking you would know
> that investment bankers are subject to audit restrictions, enforced in
> the US by the FTC, SEC, and laws that are violated by using MS Access
> to produce reports.
>
> But then your point isn't truly to be accurate or promote the use of
> "best practices." Your point is to throw napalm around.
>
> Sorry to have called the fire department but your assumptions about my
> current industrial experience are so far off target that had you any
> ethical standards you would throw yourself on a sword. You don't even
> know what I do 40+ hours a week.
>
> But then when has having the facts influenced what you post?
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> www.psoug.org