David Lester (12/9/2011)
Thanks Paul, and yes I do.Thankfully, after years of attempts, IT has ceased to be a wall. While they are still not ready to listen to me, they did hire a consultant. We are in process of redesigns, using these very things.
(It is mildly amusing that every suggestion the consultant is giving them independently matches what I have been asking for these last years.)
I know what you mean David. Sometimes organizations lack the ability to listen to the internal resources and waste sh*&^tloads of money on consultants that in the best case scenario come up with the same (brilliant) ideas internal resouces have been trying to convey for years with no luck.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
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