The Original Poster (OP) fails to explain:
- why they want to do this,
- what their environment is (OS, #records, performance needed, etc.),
- what they have tried as an alternative,
- the bigger picture of how they got themselves painted into this
corner, and what (ultimately) they *REALLY* need, which is not X to do
Y but starting at A and end up at Y.
Ted,
I absolutely agree with about 90% of what you're saying. It's a real
problem for me as well, trying to get people to nail down enough
specifics about whatever problem they're reporting to enable me to
reproduce it and fix it.
I also deeply appreciate all the help you've given me over the years.
My 10% is: I really, really dislike it when people tell me, as a
consumer of computer-related stuff, that "You don't really want to do
that. What you really need is...."
No, I know what I really want and really need. I'm the guy with the
money, and I'm the guy who makes the decisions.
The fact that some computer geek decided, in their vast wisdom, that
something that used to work just fine should no longer be available
to me, or that something that used to be simple and self-contained
should now be complex and require more steps, or that some feature
that I relied on but they don't understand isn't "important" enough
to retain, because they are trying to "protect" me or whatever else,
doesn't impress me at all.
So there's my own rant, back atcha. :)
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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