Re: RM's Canonical database (was: Bob's 'Self-aggrandizing ignorant' Count)

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:24:29 GMT, "David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote:

>I would suggest that setting up the middle tier as the defender of the
>database against unruly data is just laying the groundwork for a repeat of
>the same old debate between DBMS types and agile programmers that we've seen
>so often over the last 35 years.
>
>If the "middle tier" is as "agile" as some people want it to be, the data
>will be too unreliable for some people for certain uses. If the middle tier
>is as unchanging as others want it to be, the data will reflect a model of
>the problem domain that is no longer accepted as valid by a lot of the
>stakeholders.

Are these the only two possibilities? I don't see why.

And do these two arguments apply equally well when the database is the defender? I don't see why not.

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Ron Jeffries
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