Perhaps a bit US centric but PHB = Pointy Haired Boss. See the boss in "Dilbert".
Cheers,
Steve
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Pierre Chevalier Géologue <pierrechevaliergeol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Le 04/05/2016 15:25, John McKown a écrit :
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@xxxxxxxx
<mailto:pgsqladmin@xxxxxxxx>>wrote:
<snip>
The sensible way is to do it as John wrote - to restrict access rights
to everyone except admin to calling functions only. That way the
functions are written by the people who are paid to understand the
business rules and the data behind it, and the application developers
can ask those experts to do the heavy lifting for them. Having to
persuade management that they should no longer be able to connect the
database to MS Access and make changes that way will usually put an
end to that pure model, though. :)
Allowing PHBs direct access to company data is a nasty thing.
Sorry, what is a PHB? Our friend google didn't help me much on this matter.
They become like some users who "know Excel". They are now just as
knowledgeable as someone who's been doing this for years. I've actually
heard one say something akin to: "Damn it, I can write Excel formulas. I
know very well that an new function on the web site could be written in
less than a day, if you'd just get off you a$$ and do it."
Hm. Sounds familiar...
I usually call "excelitis" a sort of mental disease related to a use and abuse of Excel, up to the point where one cannot imagine data which is *not* in a table-like array. And they think that they do Relational Database Management... In the 1990's, I met many-many deeply sick persons. I had been infected for a while, I must confess.
À+
Pierre
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