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For the past three days at work I have been fighting with a certain reporting tool (name starts with "C" and ends with "rystal" :P) that I have had a love-hate relationship with over the years. It can produce neat-looking reports, but it is not possible to do anything *easily* with this product beyond simple report layouts. [warning: some geekspeak just ahead] This week, I have been trying to update the SQL query behind a particular report to remove a database name reference (so that I can run the report off of a test server that has a differently-named copy of the production data). Apparently it is not possible to simply go in and delete the offending verbiage from the SQL command, but instead you have to go through 387 dialog boxes to update the data source location. And *then* when I try to run the report via the client application, it prompts me for database login information. Hello, I'm already logged in to the database, otherwise I wouldn't be logged into the client app to begin with. ::hate:: </rant>
In other news, today I spoke on the phone with my academic advisor at DePaul (actually, not my assigned advisor, but I can never get a hold of that guy, so I went straight to the director of admissions, per suggestion from a classmate - thanks Linh!) to discuss whether I should remain on my current curriculum track or switch over to the new "career-focused" curriculum that came into being this quarter. The advisor told me that on the new curriculum, I would have to take two fewer classes in total, but that I would have to take the new quantitative analysis course. While he was saying this, I was all "well OK, well all right" but then after I hung up it hit me that I took like four advanced math classes as an enginerd in undergrad, and shouldn't I be able to place out of or waive this class? Anyway, he is going to snail-mail me some information that I can use to compare the two tracks, so I'll bring up the math thing when I call him back to follow up.
Time to finish my assigned homework for tomorrow's class. Whoo!
In other news, today I spoke on the phone with my academic advisor at DePaul (actually, not my assigned advisor, but I can never get a hold of that guy, so I went straight to the director of admissions, per suggestion from a classmate - thanks Linh!) to discuss whether I should remain on my current curriculum track or switch over to the new "career-focused" curriculum that came into being this quarter. The advisor told me that on the new curriculum, I would have to take two fewer classes in total, but that I would have to take the new quantitative analysis course. While he was saying this, I was all "well OK, well all right" but then after I hung up it hit me that I took like four advanced math classes as an enginerd in undergrad, and shouldn't I be able to place out of or waive this class? Anyway, he is going to snail-mail me some information that I can use to compare the two tracks, so I'll bring up the math thing when I call him back to follow up.
Time to finish my assigned homework for tomorrow's class. Whoo!
posted by Ronald @ 8:20 PM
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