Re: Primary vs. Surrogate! What a nightmare debate.

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:54:36 GMT
Message-ID: <0Nadd.277091$D%.213656_at_attbi_s51>


"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:IKKdnX0rxNBOnejcRVn-ig_at_comcast.com...
>
> So the process I recommend so much, of starting with ER analysis, and
> working your way to attributes, then to relations, then to tables, then to
> indexes, and the to database objects, is a process of successive self
> deception, in the Hindu view.
>
> That is why I am not a "Guru".
>
> Now ask me why I'm not a "geek".

Does it have something to do with a lack of contact with chickens?

> > It makes sense when you put it like that, but I still get surprised.
>
> I am continually shocked, but not surprised, when I see people saying things
> like:
>
> "We've got to get version one of the Hospital Administration System to
> market in three months! After that, maybe we'll have time to figure out how
> a hospital really works." I will never for the life of me figure out how
> that can possibly work!

Yeah, I hear you, and yet, it does! It offends my engineer esthetic, but what the hell. You have to live in the world.

Marshall Received on Tue Oct 19 2004 - 17:54:36 CEST

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