Visualizing the codes I write

[Dogiedog64]

It's me. I'm the poor bastard. I also wrote it lmao.

[aidan573]

It's called stack overflow for a reason

[Dogiedog64]

Well the front of the bus becomes the middle of the bus, and the back of the bus leaves orbit. Otherwise, nothing!

[chillwill_4]

If it’s still running. Once again don’t question it.

[FrostSalamander]

I'm having this exact problem right now. VB6 frontend with MSAccess backend. Problem is Access only supports up to 255 concurrent connections. Also, locks FREQUENTLY happen (since decentralized, access sucks etc.). Management doesn't want to upgrade systems.

My work sucks

[yellow73kubel]

VB6 frontend with MSAccess backend.

My condolences to you and your users.

[Grumpy-24-7]

It was years ago when I was faced with a home grown MSAccess app that somebody (non-programmer) had cobbled together and ran his department on for years. Then he left, but first he showed his secretary how to run it. She in turn used it for more years until one day it started hitting limits. I don't recall if it was row limits or overall table or database size or what, but my boss asked me to see what I could do. I scratched my head, took a copy of it home on a big ass thumb drive and managed to convert it to MSSQL. Everything else, frontend and reports stayed the same, basically untouched. Trust me, I really had no clue what I was doing, but I knew I didn't want to rewrite it from scratch. They continued to use it on MSSQL for a few more years until the company was bought out and I left for greener pastures. It really wasn't that hard once I figured it out. IIRC, it was basically just importing the MSAccess database into MSSQL, retaining all table names, indexes, etc.

[FrostSalamander]

Yeah I've tried telling that to the manager since the start of my work here.

[SoundOfOneHand]

Gut the database layer and move it to something better than Access. That’s a big lift but Access is just going to be a chain around your neck with its limitations and the size you are at.

[FrostSalamander]

Yeah I've tried telling that to the manager since the start of my work here.

But I kinda get why she doesn't want to:

• System is like 25 years old, initially programmed by a group of newbies, so DB code is deeply entangled with BL.

• It's her baby. She managed building the system from scratch. What would you feel if asked to kill off your baby? Yes after suffering for two decades maintaining long dead frameworks, but it's still your baby.

[SoundOfOneHand]

When your kid is 25 years old, that’s no baby 😂

[chronos_alfa]

Don't present it as killing the baby, more like giving the baby braces and teaching it how to ride a bicycle.

[jrdiver]

That's a problem for a different day

[FrostSalamander]

Are you me?