Re: foundations of relational theory?

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 00:00:35 GMT
Message-ID: <D8Emb.28638$Tr4.56986@attbi_s03>

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message news:4_Kdnf1MtOQ9YweiU-KYuA_at_golden.net...
>
> > But that doesn't mean the exercise is without
> > value. For example, Dawn has criticized the fact that in current
> > practice, it may takes some time for an application programmer
> > to get a DBA to make a needed schema change. This is a very
> > real issue that affects me regularly; I'm interested to hear her
> > take on the issue. Maybe she has useful ideas that will make
> > this less of a problem.
>
> At the same time, I have often had to wait while another programmer checked
> in some source code I needed to alter. That does not suggest to me to do
> away with revision control.

Agreed! But note that there is an optimization possible there: multiple checkouts with merge. This distinctly mitigates the problem of wait-for-checkin, but maintains all of the value of source control. It may be that someone bitching about "source control sucks because I have to wait all the time" was the motivation for the development of this feature. :-)

I find I'm generally not so good at noticing the downside of things I like; an outsider is often better at it.

Marshall Received on Sat Oct 25 2003 - 19:00:35 CDT