Re: How do you like this SQL?
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:36:50 -0500
Message-ID: <vv4sc89h54v6pivf53eu8m3qfu4gdias50_at_4ax.com>
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:38:06 +0000 (UTC), Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:30:33 -0800, joel garry wrote:
>
>> Well, if the model is messed up, isn't it kind of useless to blame the
>> developer?
>
>Well, you have to blame someone and blaming the developer is always a
>good choice. Survival of the fittest developers will eventually raise the
>quality of the applications that they develop. Thus, by blaming the
>developer you are fulfilling an important social function and making the
>applications better. The fittest developers will be able to deflect the
>blame and put it squarely on somebody else, which makes things even more
>interesting, as long as people remember that the DBA is never at fault.
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Thank you Mladen. I've passed this on to the poor developer who has foolishly volunteered to replace me as DBA upon my upcoming retirement.
I told her this newsgroup was a good source of info. This proves it.
Fred Pierce - avialantic.com
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Easternmost Fred in the U.S. Received on Sun Dec 16 2012 - 19:36:50 CET