Re: New trend in modern IT consultancy - use your relational database as flat file

"Telemachus" <telemachus_at_ulysseswillreturn.net> wrote in message news:<f8owa.13253$pK2.18217_at_news.indigo.ie>...
> Currently we have a project where [against my 'yer not serious are you'
> protests] a relational database is being re-invented in B*Tree files with
> Java.
>
> I'm trying to stay well away

Hey, if Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger did an R in AWK, why not? :-)

And of course, ftp://ftp.linux.it/pub/database/NoSQL/

> From: "Nuno Souto" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: Re: New trend in modern IT consultancy - use your relational
> database as flat file
> Date: 14 May 2003 04:55
> "Nuno Souto" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:73e20c6c.0305131955.373decc6_at_posting.google.com...
> > Mike Sherrill <MSherrill_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message
> news:<3fe2cvgts5nirfpef1v4t8b86jro3jrrco_at_4ax.com>...
> >
> > > I recently read a <cough> database design idea posted in one of the
> > > database newsgroups. The designer was either quoting or paraphrasing
> > > a Java developer, whose idea was "Just give me five nullable numeric
> > > columns, and I'll figure out what to do with them."
> >
> > Well, I'll raise you one:
> >
> > I have a Java "system architect" on record saying that relational
> > databases are useless for OOD because they don't allow him
> > to build relationships on the fly as needed! He'd much rather
> > have a flat file and build "his own" relationships.
> >
> > Is that loopy or what? I mean, if there is ONE FUNDAMENTAL
> > reason for the use of relational it's PRECISELY because it
> > lets one build relationships as needed. It's the whole FOUNDATION
> > of the darn thing!!!
> >
> >
> > > I still have coffee hung in one of my sinus cavities because of that.
> >
> > Personally I'd like to hang a few of these "experts" by all
> > parts of their anatomy, not just the sinus...

From pe to shining si, eh?

> >
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
> > wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam

jg

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