Week 5 — Monday S1

What does a municipal council and a ticking clock have in common? Full story on Friday.

Permits for 40,000 residents. Rates. Fees. Compliance records.

All running on a single Access 2003 database.

One machine. No redundancy. No proper backup procedure. One person who knew the full picture.

Not a startup. Not a small business.

A public authority.

This is a real scenario.

We'll tell you what was inside it - and what happened - on Friday.

A few quick questions

Optional — answer as many or as few as you like. No follow-up unless you want one.

Does your organisation run anything similar to an old Access database for core operations?

Yes No Something else legacy

Is there a single point of failure — one file, one machine, one person?

Yes Somewhat No Not sure

Curious what we found inside this one?

Yes, tell me more Friday Not particularly

My thoughts

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