basically said, "open the attached word doc".
Nothing like training your employees to get viruses.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deanna Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: Aaarrgggghhhhh!
> Okay, so like a year ago, I have this meeting with this other techie
> department in our organization to talk to them about our directory
> database - our definitive source of who's who in our part of the
> organization for all things web. This other dept was contracted to
re-write
> an app that dealt with a subset of our folks. Now, obviously, they needed
to
> create more tables of additional information about these folks. No problem
> there. But, we went all over how to find them in our system. We granted
them
> select access to the needed tables, etc. etc. blah blah blah. Now, we have
> to write an app that uses this same subset of people, using some of their
> additional information.
>
> Turns out that instead of using the select access we gave them, they used
it
> to pull the dataset and MAKE THEIR OWN TABLES! Now, there's no link
between
> our tables and their tables. They changed all the primary keys in their
> tables, so there's nothing that now maps these people back to the
so-called
> definitive source of information.
>
> Aaarrrrgggghhhhh! **bangs head on wall**
> **whimper**
>
> Is it Friday yet?
> -d
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Deanna Schneider
> UWEX-Cooperative Extension
> Interactive Media Developer
>
>
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