Seen that. Shared drive with excel files, people would shout at each other to 'r... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		noir_lord on Aug 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres Seen that. Shared drive with excel files, people would shout at each other to 'release the lock'

zimpenfish on Aug 17, 2017 [–]

Yeah, first real job had the customer database as a VB frontend onto an Access file shared over {whatever Win95 was using in 1996-97}. After a few snafus, the CS / Sales people learned that they had to single-task with the database.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact