I need a local (Mountain View) person to help me with database issues

[yesthattom]

I'm trying to reorganize a membership database for a non-profit I work with back home in NJ. I'm a bit stuck and need someone to be a sounding board. They don't have to know much about SQL or anything (I'm stuck with logisticaly problems, not technology). But most of all I need to do this in person not over the phone. I'm a visual thinker and need to draw diagrams (STOP: Do not give me advice about "shared whiteboard" tools, etc. I need to write with my hands, not a mouse.) Basically we have 3 databases that need to be merged, with strange dup-elimination rules and there are temporal problems (ie. some databases are old but more accurate, others are newer but less accurate. Confused? So am I!).

If anyone local (Local = Mountain View, CA) could help me with this on Saturday or Sunday (or even Friday night) I'll repay you with dinner or other appropriate bribes. It will probably take an hour or two... 3-4 tops if things go really slowly.

Thanks!

Tom

Comments

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Wish I had a fax machine. :(

If you get nobody else, I'm happy to help if you have a scanner. Though I doubt you do.

[gulfie.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be involved, and I can tentitivly say late saturday. but I'm flakey, and horribly overbuissy. So ... howbot maybe late saturday.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I'd appreciate it!

What is "late"? How about noon or 1pm?

[mhgagnon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I'm not local. This is the kind of stuff that gets me hard...the logistical issues around database and info merging (not the technical).
I understand why you'd need someone there. I resolve those issues in a similar fashion.

Good luck!~

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

I might be able to help Sunday. I will be busy Friday Night and Saturday. But if I am not too shagged out Sunday, then I should be able to spend some time helping out.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

Sounds right-up-my-alley. I could sit down with you late afternoon Saturday.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

That would be great especially since we haven't seen each other in eons. I'm in Mountain View. I can't remember where you are.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

Ages! Though I hear you met my sweetie recently.

I'm in Oakland. I have a lunch date up here at noon, but I'll be free after that. As of about an hour ago there are three vehicles parked in my garage, so I have plenty of wheels to get wherever I need.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

And this will be fun, since I'm a professional pointer-outer of flaws in designs (and implementations).