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A COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security. (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

I work with a ten year old Access database I'm trying to migrate to SQL. Should be easy, right?

Except it's got over 170 macro driven subquery chains accessing multiple legacy ERP systems, is the only source of their KPIs (these legacy systems can't generate them on their own), and is the only system that can publish the KPIs to the multiple Sharepoint lists that the entire company relies upon.

Despite the fact I have over 20 years experience migrating legacy systems, it's taken me close to a year to track down all of the dependencies, and this system is built in an easy language (SQL vs COBOL), is a tiny fraction of the size of the SSI databases, and is 30 years younger than the systems running social security (at least).

There is absolutely no way they have any chance of modernizing the social security system in under five years. It would take at least a decade to do it properly.

DOGE won't just break the system. They will fuck it up beyond all belief, to the point where it will never work properly again.

If you're on Social Security, be ready for payments to just stop. Expect it. It's their end goal.

And pray the last administration took backups.

[–] scaramobo 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Of course they took backups. A regularly tested and verified protocol for restoring those backups however.....

Prepare for "Waddaya mean we can't read these tapes anymore?!" Or "Waddaya mean ranges 2000789-2006589 are missing?"

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