Can Remote Programmers Be Trusted WIth Big Databases?
 

Do you guys have any horror stories?

Lets say, u hired someone locally. Then they ended up stealing your content/script etc etc?

How can this be prevented? tnx

Why just 'big databases'?

Use your instincts - Would you give them your mobile phone for a week?

so whats the solution? hire local freelance programmer?

The only way to be sure is to buy The Idiots Guide To Big Databases and do it yourself.

Otherwise spend a few more months on here and see if you can work out who the good guys are.

find someone trustworthy with good ratings and a good track record. They'll cost more than outsourcing to india though.

i found a local guy.. do i need to actually watch him when it comes to database work? like at a starbucks

you're worried bout him stealing your database? give him a small sample database of only 20 records for testing purposes and upload your own database when the site is completed.

I don't get it - If he was stealing anything how would you know?

You will drive yourself mad that way.

Spend some time on here and other boards - You can not just come on here and ask "Who can I trust?"....

I could give you a dozen names, but how do you know you can trust me?

yes i know, im giving him like a database similar to the real one.. but ofcourse when he finishes with work..i have no clue how to implement it myself. LOL. Damn, i suck

Build a second database, that is a complete carbon copy bar the actual info in the tables - put dummy info in the tables and get them to write whatever code it is that you need done.

Dump the schema but not the data and let him work with that.

Use dammy db and buy navicat mysql gui to update it yourself

Don't let programmers work on live databases, use a test database for development and use Git to manage your projects, that way you can keep a close eye on code as it's developed and even manage your own changes.

If you don't have the skills to manage a project, hire a trusted project manager to do it for you and keep them at arms length from the developer employment process.

find local, or what adultking said, let them work on fake db. every programmer have a brain and if you have brain you will for sure save everything that is useful or may make money, maybe you will not use it, but everyone will save it :2 cents: no ethics here, just money hunting :winkwink: have luck! :)