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Upgrading Databases . . . 

By: Zimbler0 in GRITZ | Recommend this post (2)
Fri, 21 Mar 25 12:31 AM | 22 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 05769 of 06137
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Scubavol > Databases can be brought forward for anyone sober.


Sure. IF one is willing to keep making microsoft rich every time they upgrade something.

I haven't forgotten having to 'bring forward' the shops Access databases several times - when my employers decided it was time to upgrade Windoze and Orifice . . . Sometimes it upgraded smoothly . . other times we caught holy heck getting everything 'fixed'.

The last 'upgrade'. . I think it was going from Windoze 7 to Win-10. And I think it was called 'Office 360' . . more of an internet version of office than what we had been running.

And they decided to 'upgrade' the computers from desktops to laptops. The desktops were doing OK . . but the laptops had all kinds of problems trying to run our old Access databases.

And then microsnot 'auto-magic' updates sent something particularly vile and evil and our computers starting going down with the 'blue screen of death flu'. Never really did get it adequately resolved . . and then I got to retire.

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By: scubavol in GRITZ
Thu, 20 Mar 25 6:54 PM 		Msg. 05755 of 06137

You do you, skipper. I have 3-decade relationships with clients, the successful of which – and the ones that last for 3 decades are successful- would be embarrassed to bitch in 2025 that Office 2007 is obsolete. Databases can be brought forward for anyone sober. I did know a guy who was not super bright but made a fortune maintaining an antiquated database for a Chicago-based national bakery concern that nobody didn’t like because they didn’t have the foresight to… well, they had no foresight. And after paying him well enough to fly weekly from Georgia to Chicago for an extended period, they failed. So be comatose at your own peril.

Anyhoo, I strive to no longer participate in the Special Olympics of internet debate. I’m retiring next month. I got to go bike shopping now. I’m currently infatuated with the Triumph Bonneville Bobber, though I’m not sure how to load it for extended trips yet!

PS- Don’t do Microsoft Drive. Just read about it. Not complicated. Don’t. If you already have, go back in time and don’t.

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