Re: Little design mistakes that can be easily avoided (2): Listenning to CELKO (and CELKO alikes)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 12:54:47 GMT
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"Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message
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> "David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net> wrote in message
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> >
> >> 2. If you don't find a natural key, construct your own artificial key.
> >
> > Before resorting to an artificial key, it's useful to push back on the
> > keepers of the data as given, to see how they know what they are
talking
> > about, in the absence of sufficient natural keys.
>
> Amen to that, brother!
>
> But when you do that, don't expect them to be pleased if you force them to
> see they've been doing something wrong for years.
Amen to that! If you are REALLY designing information systems, you have to be prepared to get fired every working day. If you are just "designing to specs", you are just a cog in a wheel. Received on Mon May 28 2007 - 14:54:47 CEST