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  • Reply To: Identity column as Primary Key - good or bad?

    jcelko212 32090 wrote:

    >> IDENTITY() is a piece of automation that solves a set of tricky problems for you. <<

    Actually, IDENTITY creates problems rather than solve them. Essentially, you've decided to throw...

  • Reply To: Azure Sphere

    At least someone's looking at it...

    With sensors (especially cheap sensors) not only do you have exposure from the network you also have to worry about physical compromise. Why hack a...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    What I don't agree with is your enthusiasm for implementing Access apps. Any "genius" that you see in Access is confined to the workstation. I can completely understand how...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    call.copse wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    call.copse wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    ... From a developer standpoint Access STOMPS Visual Studio...

    I have a few issues with your post overall, which have been brought up by others, but I'm...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    call.copse wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    ... From a developer standpoint Access STOMPS Visual Studio...

    I have a few issues with your post overall, which have been brought up by others, but I'm going to...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    I have never done any development on Access, but I have sure been called to consult for a lot of Access applications. On many occasions, I have had the...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    John N Hick wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    But T/SQL *sucks* as a language, and having to learn two distinct languages to do a single project is insane.

    Wow.  One can do nearly everything except build windows...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    I love Access, and always have, but I will admit to it having two critical problems that killed it, both Microsoft's fault.

    First, Access stores its built-in security system passwords in...

  • Reply To: Identity column as Primary Key - good or bad?

    Let me hop in on the side of surrogate keys as clustered keys (usually INT identities). Unless you have to worry about aggregating independent databases (say, from multiple client companies...

  • Reply To: Using a Surrogate vs Natural Key

    jcelko212 32090 wrote:

    Dr. Codd defined a surrogate key as being generated by the database engine and never exposed to the users. What he had in mind would be more like a...

  • Reply To: Using a Surrogate vs Natural Key

    Japie Botma wrote:

    Using the Employee table as an example: What if you need to have an unique index on the social security number to prevent duplicates.  Would that not mute everything? ...

  • Reply To: The Work of the Ancients

    We're still using an app written in MS-Access in 2002 as our main database. 100k lines of code, and its only now that we've started hitting the wall of Access...

  • Reply To: Searching for Answers Inside

    Speaking as a lone wolf, (developer, dba, etc.) there's the likelihood that if I'm hit by the proverbial bus every bit of the IT "staff" knowledge goes instantly *poof*.

    Therefore it is...

  • Reply To: It's Natural to Avoid Problems

    You need to be careful extending hardware techniques to software. For one thing, hardware tends to be limited by the nature of physicality itself. Hardware devices are made of simple...

  • Reply To: Printing Dates

    I think the question is broken, the correct answer is 'Jan 18 2019  8:23PM'

    🙂

     

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