29May/09Off
Just sue them for bad db design :)
This article by Bert Scalzo has one paragraph which made me smile :)
I've personally served as an expert witness in several court trials where plaintiffs sued defendants for serious financial remuneration when custom database applications had performance and/or data accuracy problems. In every case, there was a failure to data model the business requirements. Thus, the data effectiveness suffered. Moreover, ad hoc database design, or database design using more programmatic-oriented techniques and tools, often resulted in inefficient database design. No amount of coding could overcome the resulting bad database design. So, in every case, the plaintiff won.
Just sue them, if nothing else works.
