Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

From: Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:27:47 -0400
Message-ID: <2006062014274758821-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>


On 2006-06-13 11:55:22 -0400, frebe73_at_gmail.com said:

> Both schema and application changes all the time (called versions). But
> as long as you can not produce one single resonable example of a schema
> change that will not change any part of the application outside the
> "persistence" layer, it is a little bit difficult to understand why I
> should partion my application from the SQL statements.

Adding the birthdate column to an employee record should have no effect on the modules that calculate his pay.

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