Re: Conditional Trigger

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:19:31 -0800
Message-ID: <1195719564.991457@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

mowinom_at_hotmail.com wrote:

> On Nov 21, 7:45 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> mowi..._at_hotmail.com wrote:
>>> Frank's suggestion was a natural and a good one. And yes, I know about
>>> modeling and normalization. Problem is that a pannel decided that it
>>> be done as specified above. There are already too many tables in the
>>> database already.
>> Oh no! Democracy in database design: "a panel decided..."
>>
>> Just gimme back my mini's and my 911 CRT, and the days I decided
>> what to automate, and how and when and all users had to do was
>> worship me. Oh, and they could be allowed to use the product
>> every now and then - if I was in a good mood.
>>
>> What you are doing is creating a non-scalable heap of crap,
>> that can simply and elegantly be resolved by normalization.
>>
>> I'd demand signatures of the committee under a statement, that
>> no Oracle developer, DBA, or (external) consultant is ever
>> going to be held responsible for this... "design"
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Frank van Bortel
>>
>> Top-posting is one way to shut me up...

> 
> Frank, you're absolutely right. In my case, however, design is done by
> other people and different aspects of development by others. And
> unfortunately, I'm not in a position to demand anything.

It isn't about demanding it is about being respected as a professional.

If you make a logical case and are rebuffed find a better job.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
Oracle Ace Director & Instructor
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Thu Nov 22 2007 - 02:19:31 CST