"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Seriously. Until I read this, I thought this kind of incompetent crap
> was only on thedailywtf.com and asktom.oracle.com. Now it seems it
> happens in The Real World too. This is... deeply worrying.

Of course. Where do you think those sites get their stories from? There are
idiots everywhere.

What really worries me is that, other than the contractor who I've never
met, I know these guys and they're neither stupid or careless. So how did
this happen? Oversight? Managerial over rule? Critical mass?

> (Hey, did you hear about the guy who hired a bunch of programmers to add
> multi-value columns to M$ Access? Because it's "impossible" to work with
> a product so primitive that it doesn't have this "important feature"?)

Um, first rule of normalisation - remove all repeating groups and
multi-valued attributes.

Wasn't that on daily WTF?

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