Click here to visit Original posting
This company has customers around the world, and a key IT function is collecting and processing data files from them, reports a pilot fish on the inside.
"The files have a common naming structure that includes the file-creation date," fish says. "The filenames are stored in a SQL Server table, along with information such as how many rows of data the file has and when it was processed.
"Because of our workload, our manager hired a SQL consultant to 'streamline' some jobs. I'm not going to knock the guy -- he did have some talent and good ideas -- but if he was half as smart as he made himself out to be, he would be twice as smart as he really was."
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here