Re: "We don't do triggers"

(Pete Cresswell) wrote:
> I'm on the periphery of a rather large (to me, at least: $10 mil..) project in
> which the tech folks flatly say "NO STORED PROCEDURES: NONE, NOT EVER!".
>
> There's got to be a reason, but I don't know enough to even guess at it.
>
> Somebody?

There's an extremely good reason. The people running the project come from an area of expertise that is front-end development and who don't have a clue what they are doing when it comes to databases.

Expect a lot of money to be spent. Expect high-priced experts to be called in to fix things. Expect the project to be over-budget, under client expectations, and to float like a brick.

I can only think of a handful of projects like this that have succeeded and those that ran them were the best in the business: Nothing less.

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