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Is it over kill to go through the process creating staging and live tables and building etl packages to populate StoreUsers, AppointmentTypes and FittingRooms dimensions?
No, it's not overkill. The...
August 15, 2014 at 6:44 am
Do what you like and are good at. BI may pay well, but a good number of people in it don't do very well. Lots of failed projects...
August 12, 2014 at 1:22 pm
I wouldn't use composite keys at all ever. In this case, each month gets one field with a number corresponding to its place in the calendar and another field...
August 12, 2014 at 1:19 pm
You're welcome. Glad to have helped.
July 25, 2014 at 2:50 pm
For example the truly awful "diagram" view in the Access UI uses an inferior pictorial notation (don't ever call it an Entity Relationship Diagram please!) that is completely non aligned...
July 25, 2014 at 6:48 am
I have never known a programmer to say - let me implement with tried and true methods that do the job at hand.
You never talked with me when I...
July 23, 2014 at 8:48 am
The way I did it was to read the user name from the environ variable.
I used the user name to determine the group. The permissions were based off the...
July 22, 2014 at 11:52 am
fairly easy to defeat
Really? I'd be interested in how (as the information is increasinly losing relavance with the passing of years since it worked). I never found it...
July 22, 2014 at 11:23 am
OK, what I asserted above is: There have been better alternatives to MS Access for developing "multi-user line of business applications and data marts" since the mid-1990s.
There are way...
July 22, 2014 at 9:39 am
Also, I'm unclear on the current state of Access development - do you feel the product is moving forward
Although I remain a big fan of Access development if its niche...
July 22, 2014 at 8:17 am
As a front end to a real database
As you said, Access may be often misused. I would NEVER use it as a front end to a "real" database,...
July 17, 2014 at 11:19 am
I'm glad to read something so positive about MS Access. Without it, I might not be were I am today. I learned database design, application design, UI design...
July 17, 2014 at 8:57 am
I don't know how different the two versions are. As for certifications, they help to break in inasmuch as they show you're willing to put in the time. ...
July 16, 2014 at 11:09 am
Yes, that's what I'm refering to, and no, the Express edition will not suffice. That is a very scaled down version of SQL Server.
July 15, 2014 at 2:09 pm
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