Re: the relational model of data objects *and* program objects
From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:19:18 -0400
Message-Id: <60l3j2-g8s.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:19:18 -0400
Message-Id: <60l3j2-g8s.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
mountain man wrote:
>> So first we need to identify such dual things in programs, data and
>> processes.
>
> I have thought about this, and concluded that the greatest
> (and single most cost-incurring expense) related to database
> systems is RE-definition of data ---- once in the database,
> and again in the code (wherever the code may actually reside)
>
...and once again in the next layer of the code, as in:
This is why the One True Data Dictionary must exist outside of all of them, and be used to implement all of them. If the spec is both machine-readable and human-readable, mores the better.
-- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)Received on Fri Apr 15 2005 - 04:19:18 CEST