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WilWheaton
Oct 11, 2006

It'd be hard to get bored on this ship!
There was a small tourism company I did some work for. They had a database that they'd custom-made from some guy who'd done it in visual basic. For reference, the guy who made it had a full time job as a landlord and no programming background.

When you logged into the database frontend with an incorrect user/name password it wouldn't display an error, it just would display everything incorrectly, with random fields being blank. I confirmed with him this was his intended correct behaviour for indicating that someone logged in incorrectly.

They later moved to an over-blown microsoft dynamics setup that cost about a million dollars and burned through several full time database administrators who quit when trying to migrate the data from the original visual basic setup. That project almost downed the company (it was a pretty small 50 person company mostly full of retired fishermen).

Ha, his website is still up as well https://www.tkosoftware.com/

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