Re: Opinions on approach, please...



<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g1gstb$qd5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <6a29l1F31e74uU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Robert" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Trying to make the conversion 100% automated is a mistake.

Why? I've always found that trying to do something is a positive step
towards achieving it. Certainly, it won't happen if I don't try.

The concept here one might wish to consider, Mr Dashwood, is 'the law of
diminishing returns'. Yes, 100% conversion of a given system's
idiosyncracies might be possible... but this might not occur within the
project's timeline.

I'm a reasonable man... I'll settle for > 90% :-)

I have set the timeline and done the plan. So far it is on schedule. I
expect to have this solved within the next two weeks.

The assistance I have received here has been very helpful and I am
implementing a number of the suggestions received, particularly with regard
to dynamic SQL, where I have limited experience.


'On time, on spec, on budget... pick two'.


I expect to achieve all three and usually do so.

[snip]

It will be too late to change by then.

Robert, it is NEVER too late to change something that is wrong...:-)

From http://www.bartleby.com/66/61/22261.html

--begin quoted text:

The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

--end quoted text

One of my favourites...:-)

Nevertheless, I'm not going to let an 11th/12th century tent maker (no
matter how brilliant a mathematician he may have been) influence or
demotivate me. Certainly, what's done is done, but there can be a new
attempt that isn't yet done, and these attempts can continue until they
either succeed, or there is irrefutable proof that a task thought to be
"difficult" IS actually "impossible".

"For some people, nothing is written, except what they choose to write
themselves." - Lawrence of Arabia. (the movie... :-))

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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