On 7/14/2005 6:23 PM, -CELKO- wrote:
>>>I think we all know that most software projects end in failure. I wonder how much of this failure is due to a poor database design which was a result of an impedance mismatch between modeler and end user. <<
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> Hey, we were failing BEFORE databases!
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> "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
> handicapped." --Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American author.
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> But I have said in print that after 20 years I feel that most bad SQL
> DML is due to bad DDL. Screw up the foundation and the best you can
> hope for is the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but you really expect to be the
> architect of the Tacoma Falls bridge.
>
Here here! And the bad DDL is due to bad modeling and ignorance. I
love working with a well designed database because SQL queries are so
painless. But that is the exception, not the norm for me.
Received on Fri Jul 15 2005 - 09:37:49 CDT
