I went on a scary gig kinda like that once. A big accounting firm had a Fox app that they were going to "port" to SQL Server (from Fox tables). They'd given my client an estimate on how long that would take. My client sent me to spend a week with them and evaluate whether their team could do it or not. Talk about scary. It was a many-millions of dollars contract.


>>I agree with you Jim, but you would not teach your client how to be Jim Booth
>>and give hime all your functions and libs and...ways of doing things....and so on...:)
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>Robert,
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>I reality, it would be impossible to teach anyone to be Jim Booth. I might teach them what I know, but that doesn't give them my experience or my 20+ years of working with databases.
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>Interestingly, I just spent two days on a consulting contract where that is exactly what I was doing. The client asked me to spend two days with them and to let them pick my brains as far as they chose to go. I did it and they, I hope, learned a lot. Did that make them become me, nope. Did I lose anything in the deal, nope, I still have all my expereince and knowledge. They got some of it, but they paid me for it. Hopefully, other clients will pay for some of it again in the future, heck that client may even call me in the future to do the same thing again so they can get more of my experience and knowledge.