Re: RDBMS : Do we still live in 20th century?

Valentin Tihomirov wrote:
> It is much more convenient to define a type of a column selecting it from a
> combo box of possible types. I create tables only once, fill them with
> columns, set attributes for the columns. Then I set relations between fields
> of different tables. There is absolutely no need to program these scripts
> again and again for every table. Why none of the modern RDBMS I know about
> do not provide the functionality like MS Enterprise Manager does?

Well, you create the schema once for the development system, then again for the test system, then again for the production system, then again for the backup production system, and then for each of the 3,000 stores you have around the world, and...then you get bored with all those pretty button presses and combo boxes (and debugging the problems because you mis-pressed the button once). Also, it is rather hard to do version control on button presses - much easier on scripts.

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