RE: a couple of questions

Nope. Been happening for years. "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Damagement likes to be happy.

Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Neyman [SMTP:ineyman_at_perceptron.com]
>
> same here, is it a new trend?
> they say, they don't want to waist my precious time on initial design
> meetings :-)
> I get to deal with all the crap, they design, afterwards...
>
> Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> ineyman_at_perceptron.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>
> > have you been talking with the 3rd party integrator we've hired? Sure
> > sounds like it to me...
> >
> > they haven't got a DBA in on these talks. How do I know this? I'm the
> > only DBA in my group at the moment and I sure haven't been in any
> > meetings
> >
> > --- Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> > > > Not so with what you're describing. Sounds like a feature which is
> > > ripe for
> > > > all kinds of abuse. I can just imagine entire tables populated
> > > with columns
> > > > of type VARIANT by some designer touting "flexibility" as a mantra.
> > >
> > > I can see it now:
> > >
> > > one table in a database
> > > two columns, one for primary key, the other for data
> > > ( of type ANY of course )
> > > all on one server
> > > all disk striped a SAME structure as a series of RAID 5 arrays.
> > >
> > > No DBA?
> > >
> > > Hell, you don't even need a duhveloper, just use the ODBC
> > > interface in MS Excel.
> > >
> > > Jared
>

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