Re: Difficult to describe this one
At one company I worked at their entire print and control system was written in Access and ran on a timer overnight to print thousands of letters each night. The macros built into the Access database would open a form, show or hide images embedded into the form (creating client's company logos for the letters) and then a bespoke printer driver would select the printer for the letter to be printed on.
Along with that there was a reporting database (again Access) which would also run overnight producing the reports. The VBA code for that one would open a Excel spreadsheet, write the results of an SQL query to it and then send it via Outlook to a list of people.
Invariably something would go wrong every day.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
