Re: NextNumbers Tables

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:38:48 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns932057F59455Apingottpingottbah@216.166.71.233>

"stu" <smcgouga_at_nospam.co.uk> wrote in news:b2d37d$217$1$8300dec7 @news.demon.co.uk:

> "Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message
> news:Xns931FD8A286848pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233...

>> "Jason W. Paul" <nobody_at_nowhere.com> wrote in
>> news:3e49a949$0$99441$a04e5680_at_nnrp.fuse.net:

> [snip]

>> Also, it gives me the protection from the business when they tell me
>> that something will absolutely never ever ever change.  Then it
>> changes next week.

>
> That was his exact argument. Software developing is like walking on
> water: It is easy when both are frozen!

He obviously has had real world experience, otherwise read as: he's been bitten by having to rewrite all the dependent application functions and the associated reports!

FWIW, I think it's important for folks to make their design decisions in the scope of the enterprise from end to end, not just within their own orbit.

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 09:38:48 CST