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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:49:10 +0000
From: Bernard Peek <bap@shrdlu.com>
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Subject: Re: Modelling objects with variable number of properties in an RDBMS
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In message <7-ydneWcg4hqsvrenZ2dnUVZ8qSdnZ2d@pipex.net>, Roy Hann 
<specially@processed.almost.meat> writes
>"Bernard Peek" <bap@shrdlu.com> wrote in message
>news:iQqJ$jn2NoZDFwaT@shrdlu.com...
>> >I am not trying to be nasty about this, but this just sounds lazy, not
>> >agile.
>>
>> I'll definitely plead guilty to that. Nobody ever made a fortune by
>> finding the hard way to do a job.
>
>Exactly the same feeling motivates my position on this.  Can both of us be
>right?

Absolutely. I'm not sure that my idea is feasible, but this is a theory 
newsgroup after all. It may give someone somewhere an idea for something 
that is practical.

>
>I am also interested to know how one makes a fortune attempting to deliver
>something so ill-defined that the customer couldn't tell when (or even if)
>they've received it.

Become a management consultant.



-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.