New switch and SQL reports

Well another day another dollar. (Yes I got a raise). We are ready for the training seminar in sales tomorrow but the ice storm cancelled the trainer’s flight. I am taking the time to upgrade the office building’s main switch. When we put offices into this building there was plenty of bandwidth. These days we have grown eight fold and things are getting tight. Of course there have been users from the very beginning that have said “This thing is too slow.” and just sat there clicking on link after link when they didn’t get an absolute immediate response. Those people will still do that no matter how fast I make the network but that is life. 

We got the estimate back from the company that built and sold our PMS software for the hotels. For one custom built report from our databases they are going to charge 350-400 dollars per hotel.  After explaining to them that since wo owned the database we really did want to know the SQL password so we could query our own info they relented. They tried to talk us out of it so that we wouldn’t “break the database by accident”. A great play in my opinion to keep selling reports. If I could get 400.00 for half an hour work I would take it.