Hired someone for SQL Server/ Visual Basic-getting screwed

[Joacim Andersson]

A couple of hours for a project? Generally it takes that long or longer just to get a clear idea of what the customer wants before you can even begin to write code or design pages

The question wasn't how long it would take to finish a complete project but how long would it take to get a UI where you can select a customer and get a result of all orders in a DataGrid or something similar. This could be thrown together in minutes, if all infrastructure is in place and if that would be the only thing you wanted to do. But in reality there is always something more that should be done but for this simple requirement it still shouldn't take more than a few hours. The OP posted an image of what he has today in Access, he wanted the same but on a webpage.

Then there are things like security, login and permissions. New customer forms, order forms and so on... That would be the whole project which of course would take more than just a few hours but 2-3 months to move a 2 table Access app to the web sound like a very long time, not to talk about 10 months.