On 29/12/2022 15:43, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
turned out they were doing basic SQL queries for these reports to get
"views" of the data that wasn't available in the specific reports i had
been tasked to write... things were headed into a more "freeform"
format... they basically needed databases with specific information that
they could draw information from...
it was a huge mindset change... almost like having grown up doing pascal
and asm and then trying to figure out LISP on your own in the same way
you taught yourself pascal and asm...
I've spent pretty much my entire programming career working with
end-users, who did much of their own programming. Imho that's the best
way to do it - a couple of trained programmers who keep the users on the
straight and narrow.
Unfortunately, that's not the way most companies want to work - to the
massive detriment to said companies as users are forced into the
straight-jacket of systems that don't work and have been designed by
people who don't understand the job ...
Can you imagine those users writing COMPLEX SQL queries? My database
career didn't *need* complex queries, the database handled it all ...
something relational is completely incapable of :-(
Cheers,
Wol
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