October 13, 2019 at 11:51 pm
I am in the same boat now...
We have a number of systems that are either:
- production-by-stealth (start as a PoC and then remain in a Dev environment while being forced to regard it as Prod), or
- poorly designed by non-professionals-masquerading-as-professionals utilising appalling standards and a thorough lack of willingness to create anything of any quality.
Then there are the vendors who refuse to consider that there are people out there who know how to design a database correctly and know what is required to tune a system to make it perform. The vast majority of problems comes down to code + poor design. Then there are those who support the system who say that we cannot upset the vendor for fear of having them refuse to support us. I don't know what world they live in where you pay a vendor 6-figures a month in support for them to dictate terms to you.
In a previous position, I indicated to a Senior Government Official at a Townhall setting that there were support people in the room that were younger than some of the systems that needed to be supported - and that management were the blockers to them being upgraded. Of course, that resulted in a tumbling of the poop from the CIO all the way down the tree to my manager to reprimand me. My reply was that I refuse to accept the reprimand and that it was the wrong forum to perform that action even though they had constantly ignored the problems and risks for years - and that the responsibility was theirs for anything going wrong.
A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
October 27, 2019 at 7:37 pm
I just turned off a system I developed in 1999 where I re-write the application in 2010 but kept the same database (although amended some columns). This year the owner of the company retired so I shut it down over the summer.
Database was quite simple so didn't really have any fundamental flaws. Initial version would have been subject to SQL injection though I believe.
Oldest one now is a CRM-type system from around 2008 that I redeveloped last year. The database had a few changes, mainly around how I had named things.
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