Jan
19
Back in the saddle 2
Filed Under Old Diary |
Working for Dr. J. again! Well, work has resumed after being interrupted by Christmas and the new year.
Spent the majority of the day trying to figure out how a database was constructed. Someone had written this amazing package that used the database to store information and I was to figure out HOW the database tables were (or rather, SHOULD) relate to each other. It was obviously done in a visual language because all the tables names were prefixed with “ft” and the field names (of which there were probably 200-250 in total) were named like: “db” + <table name> + <fieldname>.
Brilliant if you don’t want to confuse the (simpleton) visual basic programmer who doesn’t need to type much, but not if you are trying to figure out where everything goes, or doesn’t go. Oh well, I figured it in the end.
I have NO idea what dinner was, probably something with little taste and even less nutritional value!