Re: object naming conventions

"Brian Peasland" <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:3F0ABFDE.4793D9CC_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> Like you, I agree with most of Fabian's writings. But I do know that
> there is a difference between theory and practice. How things work on
> the drawing board are not necessarily the way they work when you try to
> implement them.

He'll prolly contend this is precisely the attitude that perpetuates bad use of relational?

Anyways, I'm a little bit more pragmatic: if it works good and outlasts me, then it must be OK. ;) I tend to be a sticker for proper application of relational theory. Most of the time. It's served me well in countless design projects, some of which are still active after nearly a decade...

> > While I agree with most of his rant (certainly his opinion of SQL), I
> > disagree with the implication (or did he say it explicitly?) that just
> > because commercial products are used, logic is thrown out the window.

Explicitly. As soon as commercial imperatives dictate how a product should work, logic is thrown out the window. I tend to agree in general. Commercial imperatives are driven by tight time schedules. Logic isn't.

> > He seems to ignore the fact that much "business logic" has resulted
> > from the empirical growth of business in a non-relational manner, and
> > is in fact difficult to express relationally. I find it very
> > difficult to comprehend the idea of convincing people to discard
> > thousands of calendar years of development in favor of a provably
> > correct theory.

Well, have you stopped to think why you put the quotes around the expression "business logic"? Yes, I think the same. ;)

I'm quite willing to throw out the calendar years if they serve no other purpose than to perpetuate errors and bad form. That is in fact the major reason of the "ongoing issue" some appear to have with me and my methods of work. Even though very few with that "issue" have ever actually worked with me in ANY project... Details! :)

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