Hi Yechiel, Thx. The hardest thing for me to do is step back and let management micro manage technical issues about which they know nothing, and apply resources where they see fit. After a group therapy session with the cobol folks, we were all in a much better mood.
Did we meet the 24-hour deadline with the single table design the mngr wants? We still don't know, because the IT mngr postponed the demo and is taking PTO until next week sometime. At 2/28/02, you wrote: >Hello Don > >In a more serious mood: DO IT. >I also had some arguments with my boss over the years and except >for 2-3 cases (in 20 years) that I told my boss that I will not do something >and if he wants it he can do it himself, my motto was if he wants to waste >resources for something that is obviously an error let him waste it. >He wants you to waste time and disk space on a system that the users >will not use: waste your time and the resources. He is management and >he is the one who calls the shots. >Just document everything to cover yourself later. > >Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Don [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wed, February 27, 2002 8:48 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Help! > > > > I've lost patience, my temper, and I'm about to quit a job because the IT > > manager has decreed that we will have "his" data warehouse running within > > 24 hours, and we will use his design. > > > > 1 - We are NOT to use any kind of views, not even materailzed views. > > 2 - we are not to do any computations, summaries or rollups > > 3 - we are to have everything in one table > > 4 - "the" table name and column names will be meaningful to any clerk > > 5 - we are not to "start" or "snowflake" designs. "That's just a bunch of > > > > high power talk." > > 6 - all users will be trained to use MS Access to get at "their" > > data. (These are users that were just converted off from "green screen" > > teminals within the last 45-days, to Windows 98 with 64k RAM.) > > 7 - We are not to just copy the legacy transactions. > > 8 - We are to load into "an" Oracle table, all legacy transction data > > because "we don't want to limit how or what a user will look at" > > 9 - It is not necessary to talk with the users to see what data they want > > to look at, or the atomic level. "They are smart enough to fighure this > > out on their own. We just need to provide them the data." > > 10 - There shall be no long term maintenance required by "the" dw. > > > > > > Any ideas on how to deal with this situation? > > > > For tomorrow, I've done a CTAS from a materialized view that we created to > > > > support one departments known requirements. > > > > > > Don > > > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > -- > > Author: Don > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: =?iso-8859-8?Q?=E0=E3=F8_=E9=E7=E9=E0=EC?= > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
