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

From: Bernard Peek <bap_at_shrdlu.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:49:10 +0000
Message-ID: <EPKw4vs2Y1ZDFwuQ_at_shrdlu.com>


In message <7-ydneWcg4hqsvrenZ2dnUVZ8qSdnZ2d_at_pipex.net>, Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> writes
>"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?

Absolutely. I'm not sure that my idea is feasible, but this is a theory newsgroup after all. It may give someone somewhere an idea for something that is practical.

>
>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.

Become a management consultant.

-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.
Received on Tue Nov 01 2005 - 12:49:10 CET

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