Re: What databases have taught me
Date: 28 Jun 2006 09:41:26 GMT
Message-Id: <xn0eo0f8s7nto6003_at_news.xs4all.nl>
mAsterdam wrote:
> Frans Bouma wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Funny thing is that if you give 3 randomly chosen database
> > architects (or whatever the f... some people want to call these
> > people) the task to develop the RDM for a big hospital (so you end
> > up with at least 700 or so tables), you will definitely get 3
> > completely different models.
>
> Is this from experience - did you see 3 actual models for
> a big hospital? Did you try to find out what was same,
> similar and different? I speculate that it is speculation.
> It does not match my experience. I did some admittedly
> shallow comparisons of different data models in operation
> for different organizations in the same businesses
> (not hospitals). The similarities were striking,
> noted differences were accounted for.
> I think this is because when you are in the same
> business, you have to deal with the same
> facts. If you don't you are in a niche.
Then our experiences differ indeed. :)
FB
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