Re: Why an organization would need an enterprise DB team

On 3/19/07, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> "Why is data modeling needed? The main reason is that systems developers
> are so bad at building files and databases". George Tilmann - A Practical
> Guide to Logical Data Modeling - McGraw Hill 1993
>
> That hasn't changed much in 14 years.
>
> Much of this ignorance of how an efficient (as in scalable) database
> should work is due to the Microsoft 'black box' programming methods.
> Developers don't know many of the building blocks they use really work, and
> are not encourage to find out how things work.
>
> You don't need to know all the internals, but you do need some idea of how
> things work to use them efficiently.
>

Just to be clear on this, I think it would be great if all developers had an interest in how the database work, and the hows and whys of database design.

The problem just seems to be that they are often taught that it is not necessary.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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