Gail Shaw wrote:

> I'd offer to give SQL workshops to the developers, but I think I'd be the
> only person who attends. After all, databases are easy and anyone can write
> SQL. Right?

Sure it is. After all, a database is really just a flat file with a 
built-in search function, right?

Right??

> *sigh*
> 
> I feel a bit better now.

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.

What you have described indicates that the people who did this have a 
thorough lack of understanding of WTF a database actually *is*!

(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"?)

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