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MotF Bane said:
Unless I'm misjudging the way this would flow, the method requested by my superior would double the number of database queries/reads, and have no upper bound on consumed disk space.
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Until your Mantissa impinges upon the membranes of your intersecting ammoniak cells. 😛
 
MotF Bane said:
The age doesn't matter, I was just remarking.

That would be an impressive scanner by the consultant.

Contactless scanning, yes, by an IR scanner. Far more financially sensible than high-cost tags on each of the thousands of bottles.
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They are actually using an EHF chirp. 😱
 
Here we go. The last thorough inventory is 10-12 years old, and lists over 8000 items. It is reasonable to conclude that the total quantity has grown since then. This also means it includes every single item throughout the building, through all the research labs.
 
This inventory was updated sporadically and poorly; that is in part one of my earliest tasks here, where I, a high school student with almost no knowledge of the subject at hand, was sent to do inventory on names I couldn't even pronounce.
 
The third supervisor used a typed Excel-esque spreadsheet with barcodes that contained a simple three or four digit number to query the inventory, but as far as I know, the inventory had no write function to adjust the quantities after they were entered, and nothing was ever deleted. The numbers each corresponded to an item.
 
The fourth used barcodes that contain the entire name of the item, but got no further than that.

It is now being asked to resurrect the inventory with the third supervisor's numbering system, update the inventory, retake inventory of the entire building, and use number barcodes. Each successive item that comes in will receive the next higher number. Every single bottle, every can... a new number, a new entry in the server.
 
Let's say I grab the 120 GB SSD. I'll want to just copy over my OS partition from my existing drive. What all will I need to do once I do that? I know the boot.ini (or whatever it is called in Win7) will be messed up and as a result, it won't boot; however, I think you can run the Win7 repair and it will detect it can't boot and fix that. What else do I do?
 
<darth vader voice> You think that window on that Sloan valve is there for the purpose of sensing you leaving to auto flush the commode? Ha! It's actually a HD camera taking pictures of your penis! <darth vader voice>
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Define huge.
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Starting at 8000 entries and growing at a rate of 1000/year. Accordingly, roughly 1000/yr would go dead, but unless properly deleted, which they've never done before, they'll stick in there.

As for the size of an entry, they could a) use the reference number and look up from a different db and keep just the quantities in this one, or b) use the reference number and look up from an online db, or c) load all the details and data into this db. If a or b, a couple Kb per entry? If c, 10-20 Kb?

So "huge" is a relative term, but there is no limit to how far it will grow.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Let's say I grab the 120 GB SSD. I'll want to just copy over my OS partition from my existing drive. What all will I need to do once I do that? I know the boot.ini (or whatever it is called in Win7) will be messed up and as a result, it won't boot; however, I think you can run the Win7 repair and it will detect it can't boot and fix that. What else do I do?
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Create an image file on another HDD.
Restore this to your SSD.
Realign the partition using a free utility.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Let's say I grab the 120 GB SSD. I'll want to just copy over my OS partition from my existing drive. What all will I need to do once I do that? I know the boot.ini (or whatever it is called in Win7) will be messed up and as a result, it won't boot; however, I think you can run the Win7 repair and it will detect it can't boot and fix that. What else do I do?
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Just reinstall Windows, it'll be so much easier. Use both drive at the same time, copy the data you want from the previous drive, and you'll be done.
 
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