Re: Testing relational databases
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:22:26 GMT
Message-ID: <SHcsg.62376$Lm5.50028_at_newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>
AndrewMcDonagh wrote:
> JXStern wrote:
>> I don't get it, why is the book title "Refactoring Databases" if it's
>> mostly about testing?
What technique, beginning with R, should you never do without unit tests?
> Unfortunately, the majority of uses of RDBMs is to only persist
> mission-critical data. The vast majority of development done with dbms
> that I've come across (from all sizes of company - startups - medium -
> large multinational corps) have all done the same.
>
> Lots of tables, several referential constraints, a fair few uniqueness
> constraints, and db links and a sprinkling of joins.
>
> As for business logic that could be modeled using the RM, its tended to be
> either in the 'application' code base (C++, Java, etc) or as stored
> procedures.
>
> So, whilst Scott may have made a better impression with the guys over in
> c.d.t he can certainly help the rest of the RDBM users.... and lets face
> it - there's more of them.
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