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Re: Modelling objects with variable number of properties in an RDBMS

From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:05:00 -0000
Message-ID: <7-ydneWcg4hqsvrenZ2dnUVZ8qSdnZ2d@pipex.net>


"Bernard Peek" <bap_at_shrdlu.com> wrote in message news:iQqJ$jn2NoZDFwaT_at_shrdlu.com...
> >I am not trying to be nasty about this, but this just sounds lazy, not
> >agile.
>
> I'll definitely plead guilty to that. Nobody ever made a fortune by
> finding the hard way to do a job.

Exactly the same feeling motivates my position on this. Can both of us be right?

I am also interested to know how one makes a fortune attempting to deliver something so ill-defined that the customer couldn't tell when (or even if) they've received it.

Roy Received on Tue Nov 01 2005 - 03:05:00 CST

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