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At work we get an email from HR every Week telling us at the helpdesk who is
going to be terminated and on what date. Then when the date comes up we
disable the account and start to remove their network privileges, deleting
email account  and so on and so forth. Now comes the fun part. During the
week we get all these emails from HR telling us that this person or that
person will NOT be leaving on this date but will be leaving at a later date.
We then have to remember when these peoples dates have changed.  I was
thinking to myself, Gosh, this needs to be put into a database of all the
employees and when someone is getting ready to leave we in the helpdesk can
see up to the minute information on these employees. I'm leaning towards the
idea that HR should have a company wide Employee database and when a box is
selected (lets call it "Terminate") that would open a page where they can
enter the date when that person will be leaving. Then we at the helpdesk
would have access to that page. Anytime HR would make a change to those
fields it would update the page at that moment. Then we could go about our
business without having to track down various emails relating to these
people.

As a learning project and maybe get noticed a bit. (Blush blush..self
serving bastard aren't I?) Anyway. I would like to build a kind of small
demo database and take it to work and show them what we can do. I'm running
Win 98 on this drive and have Access 2000, But I also run Linux RH on my
other drive.

1. Should I do this on 98 or RH? I'm leaning towards RH myself.
2. Which or what should I build it with? Oracle, Mysql? Or what? I'm looking
for suggestions here.

3. I would also like to do it with a webpage where HR can go and enter the
data and we can get the data output on the page with ASP.

4. Now, the company is running NT servers on a novell network and NT
workstations with some 95 and 98 workstations. Also they're using Lotus
notes.. GAKkkk.. BUT.. they are going to be moving to Win 2000 servers and
Win 2000 workstations and  exchange, except I did hear something in the
works about ME.

GAkkkkkkk... way too much to do hu?  I am reading everything I can get my
hands onto but I'm running into a slight problem of information overload adn
then everyone says their product is SOoooo much better than the others. I'm
starting to get confused with this stuff now. So if anyone can set me
straight and point me in the correct direction. I'll even settle for your
humble opinion on what you think.
 I would be very appreciative.

Thanks So much.
Doug Gentry