Client: How is this database updated? I thought you weren't updating it?
Me: I'm not sure where you heard that. The databases talk to each other.
Client: But how is it updated? I thought you weren't updating it anymore?
Me: Not manually, no. Databases talk to each other.
Client: But how.
Me: ... With a remote server connection, involving an insert statement from a view based off a series of joins into the output table on the reporting server....
Client: I don't understand that. How do you update it?
Me: ... magic.
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“We taught the databases to update each other in some circumstances. We’re calling it the ‘SkyNet protocol.’ I was just working on limits and restraints to prevent it from exceeding its set parameters, but if it’s more valuable to explain the details to you, I’ll backburner that work.”
ReplyDeleteI just do not even know how to react anymore.
ReplyDeleteClient: So A is B now?
ReplyDeleteI feel like if you can't understand the conceptual, "The databases talk to each other," then there's likely no explanation that will bridge that particular gap.
ReplyDeleteYou maybe, possibly might be able to say, "It's like that," if they've got any of their devices synced. It's just that it's probably not worth the effort it would take to figure out if they've got synced devices or accounts on anything, because it sounds like they wouldn't know what you'd be talking about enough to answer your question.
There are nomes involved. They get stuff from the first database and take it over to the second database. They have to take a special secure tunnel so nobody can steal the data they're carrying, because if someone did it would let all the magic smoke out of both databases, and you really don't want that.
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ReplyDeleteThis is one of those instances where automagically is a better word choice than automatically.
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