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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
Quoted for the brutal truth. Unless someone's learned how to program, and has some direction, you'll end up with haphazard, ugly shit that's unmaintainable and likely suboptimal.
It's amazing how many people come to me to say they need an upgrade for me to turn around and say, "No, you need your software rewritten. There's no point to try to select an entire table of xGB into RAM."
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When I took over the project at the forestry company I mentioned before, it was a distributed ap written in Visual Basic over a custom database layer called Pivotal Relationship that used exchange server to replicate via email messages to local MS SQL servers at each location. Yes, you read that correctly. This system was running 15 manufacturing locations, all sales, all inventory, all shipments etc.
