So we just had something demoed
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:58 pm
Which was advertised as the answer to our prayers. Well, OK, a replacement for a much needed search function we lost when we were ferried, a lot like the characters in Lost, onto this new Database Island. We begged & finally received a reasonable replacement, reasonable functionally that is, but it takes 15 minutes to come up with an answer & can only be run consecutively, not in parallel instances of itself (so because you can't "+/or" some things, you can basically do one search at a time).
The new search function was demoed today; it takes maybe 2 minutes (sometimes even less!), as opposed to 15 (the search function for the old database, which was replaced for purely office-political reasons, took fractions of a second. It was designed by people for whom "take advantage of being on a computer", & not office-politics, was important.).
It does a lot of things I personally don't need a search function to do, but which the accountants may love having "all in one place" (they seemed to be saying they could already do these things, but in several different places).
It does not do the one thing it has to do to make it useful to me & my co-worker, which is to let us search sequences each other has approved. The 15-minute, run-them-consecutively searches do do that one thing. So we don't have our new tool after all.
The new search function was demoed today; it takes maybe 2 minutes (sometimes even less!), as opposed to 15 (the search function for the old database, which was replaced for purely office-political reasons, took fractions of a second. It was designed by people for whom "take advantage of being on a computer", & not office-politics, was important.).
It does a lot of things I personally don't need a search function to do, but which the accountants may love having "all in one place" (they seemed to be saying they could already do these things, but in several different places).
It does not do the one thing it has to do to make it useful to me & my co-worker, which is to let us search sequences each other has approved. The 15-minute, run-them-consecutively searches do do that one thing. So we don't have our new tool after all.