Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
From: Tony Andrews <andrewst_at_onetel.com>
Date: 3 Sep 2004 09:32:17 -0700
Message-ID: <cha6ah$b9c_at_odak26.prod.google.com>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> My observation is that it's the career path that comes first. But
that's not
> definitive; I'm an application programmer but I'm now fully signed up
> to having the DBMS manage the data. (Which is sort of the whole
point.)
Date: 3 Sep 2004 09:32:17 -0700
Message-ID: <cha6ah$b9c_at_odak26.prod.google.com>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> My observation is that it's the career path that comes first. But
that's not
> definitive; I'm an application programmer but I'm now fully signed up
> to having the DBMS manage the data. (Which is sort of the whole
point.)
Same here. What amazes me, though, is the number of clearly intelligent and experienced practitioners who just don't "get it". Naming no names, of course...
> I think it happens about the time they realize the bogosity of ORM.
Do you mean "Object Role Modelling" (www.orm.net), or is there another meaning of ORM that I'm missing? If so, I thought that was a relatively little-known movement to supplant E-R analysis tools, not something most application programmers would be interested in. Received on Fri Sep 03 2004 - 18:32:17 CEST