Re: Database in depth, by C.J. Date

I'll swap you the designers who worry about the form of their database model/design for ours that have none at all.  todays special.
 skills 'database'.
 two tables
skills_header
skills_detail (skill_id,staffno,skill_level,... ) - .  skills_header contains only staff details no skill information at all - *that *is held on a filesystem in XML.  

 On 6/14/05, stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 14/06/05, Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post_at_ps.net> wrote:
> > Actually as I understand it Einstein was not all that great at math
> > either, but he had the ability to conceptualize things that no one else
> > could. I believe you can be a pretty good DBA and not really be great at
> > math.
>
> Thinking of some of the systems we've had put in by suppliers and the
> conversations I've had with their design/development people, I suspect
> that some people in the field (quite a lot of them actually) worry
> more about how elegantly they can describe the data model in
> mathematical terms and not so much about "Will it work?" There was a
> similar culture going around when I used to be a C developer.
>
> I think there has to be a balance between producing pretty diagrams
> and producing a system that will actually fulfil the spec and do what
> it's supposed to do.
>
> Stephen
>
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> It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption.
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