My boss—a biologist—told me to buy Oracle. Me: What is Oracle, exactly? Boss: It’s a database. Me: Why do we want it? Boss: We have data. We have to put it in a database. Me: I don’t think so. Boss: Our data is important. Don’t argue, just go buy it. It should cost $10,000. 1/2
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out of curiosity, what was your eventual data management solution? in 2018 I'd toss it all in a PostgreSQL instance for $0/mo (excluding hardware/hosting costs) and call it a day. In 1994 that wasn't an option though.
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Flat files. Was all we needed at the time. [Thought I’d replied to this before, but I can’t find my tweet]
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I am so sorry man. I feel your pain. Bosses seldom know what technology they need and much less why. It is good that there are a lot of resources now a days. But it is tough to use them efficiently. This sounds just like a dilbert comic strip or episode.
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You can't stop the story there! What did you figure out about why it happened?
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(Points to the first tweet)
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