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 < pierrechevalierg...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 04/05/2016 15:25, John McKown a écrit : > >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqlad...@geoff.dj >> <mailto:pgsqlad...@geoff.dj>>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 > -- > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Pierre Chevalier > PChGEI: Pierre Chevalier Géologue Et Informaticien > Partenaire DALIBO > Mesté Duran > 32100 Condom > Tél+fax : 09 75 27 45 62 > 06 37 80 33 64 > Émail : pierrechevaliergeolCHEZfree.fr > icq# : 10432285 > jabber: pierre.chevalier1...@jabber.fr > http://pierremariechevalier.free.fr/pierre_chevalier_geologue > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
