Re: sql views for denomalizing

dawn wrote:
>
> > and one particular "storage device" (to use your concept
> > from above) must be the primary (hence authoritative) repository of the
> > data.
>
> So the source of the data are not the people, but the machine, eh?

"Repository" and "source" are not the same thing. I strongly agree that there needs to be a single authoritative repository; it's the joke about the man with two watches again. Each datum must also have a single authoritative *source*, but there may be many such sources entering data into a single repository, (or a single source and many repositories, if you partition the data.)

> If
> a database offers up propositions that are in conflict with people who
> are experts in a particular area, where would you go to resolve this
> difference? I would go to people, the source of such data and not to
> the machine.

But earlier in the same message you said:

> People who work on
> hci (human-computer interaction) sometimes see the person as the source
> and sink for data. People working with databases sometimes see the
> database as the source and the sink. I see data movement.

I liked the second one better.

Marshall Received on Fri Aug 12 2005 - 10:43:51 CDT