See, I'm a programmer that has to support his application...that means
acting like a help desk tech from time to time. It's a load of crap I
know.... Believe me I wish that the real help desk knew more about my
software...but now since nobody knows about it...I like to call that "job
security" since they wouldn't be able to troubleshoot/fix my problems...
-- -Josh 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L<jdurling@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:001f01c2e134$3cb3cac0$6401a8c0@Gate... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "andy levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com> > To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:09 PM > Subject: Re: DML: Re: Meets this Summer & Fall > > > > I don't recall the exact details of the situation as it was a year ago, > > but ulitmately we had to restore everything from tape. The whole thing > > wasn't my department - we don't do server hardware/base OS/DB stuff, I'm > > just a programmer. But I still have to answer to the end-users why > > their site is down. > > > > > > -- > > -andy > > > > http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/ --- andylevy@yahoo.com > > -------------------------------------------- > > modesty, n.: > > Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness > > -------------------------------------------- > > > I don't want to keep this thread going and I really am not busting on you it > was just a surprise. Amazing that the IT or management or even both of > larger networks have trouble realizing that you have to change how some > things are done when your network gets so large. > > I feel for you too being a programmer. No different for us IT guys. If it's > a computer and it has programs then you know waht the problem is and how to > use advance programs because it's on the computer. This goes both ways for > either of us. I always love when someone in accounting is having a problem > with a part of the database (that was customized for thier specific needs) > and doesn't want to call that department and calls me. Umm, yeah I know how > to change it so it does that when you do this with that particular report. > > Jeff Durling > > >
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