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  • I was referring to inadequacies of alleged IT professionals 😉

    My war story is that our development group used to have a guy whose entire job was to import data. I found this out after we went through some rightsizing and he was let go. When I reviewed his code it turned out to be slow AND inaccurate. He was driving it through a VB program with maximum RBAR. We just scrapped it all. Now things he used to run for a day are handled in under a minute, without duplications or omissions. No brilliance required, it was just a sad example of developers (who don't understand database) thinking that knowing how to do an INSERT or an UPDATE is all there is to it.

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