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Coming from a banking background, I know that Access is heavily used in the financial industry, including Investment Banks.
by louis8799 7y ago
Coming from a banking background, I know that Access is heavily used in the financial industry, including Investment Banks.
- heelix 7y agoMy Bride use to work for one of the big 'third bucket' credit card companies. Someone had discovered the northwinds tutorial database, changed the labels, and reworked the business processes to fit the queries - all tables were left as found. The best part was eventually, after acquisition, they had a directive that all databases must be ported over to Oracle... and some soul got to see the horrors of what was done and convert it.
- IgniteTheSun 7y agoThis has to be my favorite story on this topic today. Triumph and tragedy in the same instance - tragedy that the person mentioned didn't learn how to use Access properly and triumph in that the person overcame, adapted, and innovated to find a solution. The second sentence of your post contains both joy and heartache and - in my opinion - could stand alone as a short story for the tech crowd almost on par with the record holder for shortest short story ever. These are some of the golden nuggets that I used to read Slashdot for 15 years ago and now find on HN.