Re: Transactions: good or bad?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:34:03 -0700
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"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> In software engineering, the benefits of listening to the expert's good
> advice (or the risks of ignoring it) might not be made apparent for
> a year or more. One might think that this delayed feedback is why
> people sometimes have trouble accepting the word of experience,
> but I can attest that the same situation applies even in fields where
> the expert's superior technique can be made visible in under a second.
Sometimes people that "have experience" call themselves "experts". I would refrain taking any advice from them, not to mention listening to their phylosophical ramble! That kind of experts, for example, insist that stored procedures are "interface" to the databases which is suprerior to SQL (in their experience:-). Having experience and understanding fundamentals are different things. (The latter comes for free with scientific education background, BTW). Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 21:34:03 CEST