Good Morning

[TheAnimus]

ah databases, is there anything more boring.

What I also found irritating is the way they tend to teach only basic concepts of run of the mill relational databases.

Also ignoring the 'future' things like nHibernate, or column databases are ignored. Not to mention the fact the data model is less and less relivant now adays.

Its at the point where i have a rich 'object' store, and a datawarehouse db. The warehouse DB is so big right now i can't have proper foriegn key relationships because it then takes over 20 seconds to do a DELETE.... I don't have the space to afford a deleted flag

[lodore]

even at level 3 they still teach excel...
why dont they teach something better?

[Stringent]

even at level 3 they still teach excel...
why dont they teach something better?

Like Oracle?

[digit]

Like Oracle?

At my university they didnt even really teach that very well Most people who had to take Oracle struggled with Access ...
In fact come to think of it I'm not sure Staffordshire teaches anything that well bar Cisco, Music and Computer Games Design

[tiggerai]

Morning all!

Just sitting down to my weetabix and cup of tea before I attack some prototype interfacing for our new research application. Its nice not to have to be battling with oracle for a couple of days!!

how is everyone this sunny, but fricking cold Tuesday?

[Jay]

Telewest Business have organised two installs that overlap and requested I be at both. How is that possible then?

[Funkstar]

how is everyone this sunny, but fricking cold Tuesday?

Tired, hungry and not in a great mood.

couldn't sleep last night, it was sometime after 3 i eventually drifted off. So i slept in this mornign as was quite late for work.

Another day of sitting in the office doing precious little. There are a million and one things I would rather be doing right now.

[tiggerai]

Tired, hungry and not in a great mood.

couldn't sleep last night, it was sometime after 3 i eventually drifted off. So i slept in this mornign as was quite late for work.

Another day of sitting in the office doing precious little. There are a million and one things I would rather be doing right now.

1. Eat something proper, it'll lift your mood (and I know what you're like on this one...)

2. Come down here, there's plenty to do! haha

[Funkstar]

1. Eat something proper, it'll lift your mood (and I know what you're like on this one...)

2. Come down here, there's plenty to do! haha

Had a coffee and one of the flapjacks i made, about to repeat this in a minute. Feeling a bit better but still tired.

Haahaa, yeah ok, i'll head off now will I?

[digit]

Tired, hungry and not in a great mood.

Another day of sitting in the office doing precious little. There are a million and one things I would rather be doing right now.

Likewise, all in all another waste of time bothering to come in.

[Funkstar]

Likewise, all in all another waste of time bothering to come in.

What is quite annoying is that I have 14 days of TOIL (Time Off In Lieu) and about 15 days of holidays still to take, yet they want me in for no apparent reason.


grrrrr

[0iD]

Any of you want to come down here & help me out then? So much to do & the MD wont let me emply any more bodies to take up the slack.

and talking of slack, i'd better do some work myself

[tiggerai]

Any of you want to come down here & help me out then? So much to do & the MD wont let me emply any more bodies to take up the slack.

and talking of slack, i'd better do some work myself

Same... (although I am working... just waiting for things to compile)

We've gone from 16 to 7 this year... We have 2 developers and my workload is pretty much stretching into April at the moment. We're on a recruitment hold too.

[Stringent]

I just got back from the Tesco run. Now have stocked up on Egg n Bacon sandwich, minstrels, kettle chips, apple juice and haribo. Yeah healthy!

[Funkstar]

I'm looking forward to lunch in an hour

left over roast beef from Sunday sliced up in a wrap with english mustard, sliced mushrooms, tomatoes a handfull of mixed salad leaves and some green olives. yummy!!

[tiggerai]

Branston pickle and Ham (yes, in true food standards agency, greatest first - ham and cheese are only the bulking agents for pickle) roll and lots of fruit (no straw)

Oh and fruit shortcake biscuits.