Maddogs,

I was talking about MY PROJECTS.

Projects I designed, built and told developers what to do.

Of course, there are plenty of other projects around, designed by normal simple-mind developers.

Of course, we have 3-4 minor issues per day and 1-2 major crashes per week with those applications.

Of course, there was a suggestion to rewrite at least most critical parts of those projects, and of course management ruled them out.

All projects but two, where desperation was too high because of too significant cost of those projects.

And because it was absolute disaster they gave me Cart Blanche for any changes.

Now nothing reminds those projects are in production.

There are some operational guys who are watching the servers (SQL and WEB), doing backups, but they don't have an idea about internal functionality.

And there are users which send us notifications about new customers connected to the network.

That's how it works in real life.

If it's another planet - sorry for you.

It means that your planet is a sand box for childish amateurs who cannot build anything actually working.

On my planet there are organizations with strict rules about confidentiality, mental health clinics, banks, credit cards, other organisations which don't let anybody to access their data.

Do they exist on your planet?

What do you think programmers should do?

I think they should make programs, automatic procedures to work with data.

If human intrusion is required then programmers failed. They appeared to be unprofessional.

That simple.

P.S.

Does MS team have access to you Windows Registry? Or to system tables on your production SQL Server?

Do these application work without their intrusions?

Can you create anything with about the same level of reliability?

Or it's also another planet for you?