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[Kristina Anderson]

David -- exactly.  With the deadlines I face and pressure from clients 
to "get things done now", it's unfortunate that I rarely have time to 
do anything the "best way possible"...there's always a better way to do 
it but the client won't wait while I sit there and toy with it for 
another week.  This pressure leads me to have to hack things together 
any way I can find that works effectively, and also leads me, when I 
start feeling extreme time pressure, to post questions on occasion that 
I should have and often do figure out are easy and simple and I 
shouldn't have posted (luckily I think this is not one of those silly 
ones).

I would dearly love to modify the database structure as the previous 
replier suggested, but doing that at a late stage of the game always 
leads to consequences of some sort.

I'm thinking we should start a thread about work/life balance on here :)
I'd do it except I won't have a day off until next Sunday!

-- Kristina


> Kristina Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > If anyone has any suggestions, thanks!
> > 
> > -- Kristina
> > 
> 
> I'd go down the path you thought about. I find doing things in code 
often 
> easier and less complex than crafting some tricked out SQL. SQL may 
be faster 
> than code, but that is just my guess. If it is that shortly before 
deploying 
> I'd stick with something that works and that you understand. You do 
not have 
> the time left to try things and evaluate the one approach over the 
other over 
> time. And if you know what is happening then it is much easier to 
troubleshoot 
> and potentially optimize later. I rather work with code that I trust, 
even if 
> it is not the best solution on the planet.
> 
> David
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Kristina D. H. Anderson
Senior Application Developer/Consultant
"Building a Better Tomorrow, One Line of Code at a Time"
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