River City Connections—2026-05-12 (Patreon)

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A LITTLE ISSUE by Michael Allen

If you’ve been around a while, you know Cindi has come a long way in her battle with anxiety disorder. She’d tell you that she hasn’t had a curl-up-in-the-corner-and-cry episode in a long time.

But it’s a real thing for her. Add in years of avoiding social interaction, and the Roman dilemma makes sense.

He’s a good friend. His data is bad. Cindi wants him to fix it so the project can go forward.

I could have coached her through the call. Instead, to save time and model a solution, I made a call.

“Roman… you in town this weekend? Tennis sound good?”

“Yeah, I’ll be in town. Tennis sounds great. What’s up?”

“Cindi’s hit a problem with your data that seems irreconcilable. She’s nervous to bring it up…you understand…so, I’ve got some notes…”

Roman answered. “My data is a monster. I’m not surprised. What’s the issue?”

I laid it all out as Cindi had written it down. She’s going to edit the next bit so that you get a clearer picture.

Roman’s data has quite a few tables, none of which mesh fully. The main tables in the mess are a customer table, a sales table, and a license table. They all have problems.

The sales table shows who bought what and when. But the “who” doesn’t line up with the customer list.

“She says there’s no common key, either. In sales, you sometimes have the company name and sometimes the name of a person who works there.”

I said it more gently, but the license table is garbage. It’s a mix of company and personal names and the dates are corrupt.

Roman cut me off. “It’s a disaster. We grew so fast that it’s not consistent at all.”

Cindi smiled, then said (I was on speaker mode), “What would be a good start would be to go through the sales table and fix the customer names. Also, your customer table at least doesn’t have duplicate rows, so add a unique customer ID—call it CustID—and add that to the sales table so everything can be matched up. I can run some scripts to build a new license table.”

“Okay,” Roman replied, “this will take some time, but I’ll get it done.”

We chatted for a few minutes, ended the call, then Cindi said, “Okay, that went well.”

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