On Nov 21, 7:45 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> mowi..._at_hotmail.com wrote:
> > Frank's suggestion was a natural and a good one. And yes, I know about
> > modeling and normalization. Problem is that a pannel decided that it
> > be done as specified above. There are already too many tables in the
> > database already.
>
> Oh no! Democracy in database design: "a panel decided..."
>
> Just gimme back my mini's and my 911 CRT, and the days I decided
> what to automate, and how and when and all users had to do was
> worship me. Oh, and they could be allowed to use the product
> every now and then - if I was in a good mood.
>
> What you are doing is creating a non-scalable heap of crap,
> that can simply and elegantly be resolved by normalization.
>
> I'd demand signatures of the committee under a statement, that
> no Oracle developer, DBA, or (external) consultant is ever
> going to be held responsible for this... "design"
> --
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>
> Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
Frank, you're absolutely right. In my case, however, design is done by
other people and different aspects of development by others. And
unfortunately, I'm not in a position to demand anything.
Received on Wed Nov 21 2007 - 15:43:57 CST
