EAV - again
From: Eric <eric_at_deptj.eu>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:48:12 +0000
Message-ID: <slrnmd7p8s.399.eric_at_bruno.deptj.eu>
The recent mention of EAV in another thread reminded me of a presentation I went to a year or so ago from a major vertical-market software supplier, where one of the speakers actually boasted about their use of EAV!
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:48:12 +0000
Message-ID: <slrnmd7p8s.399.eric_at_bruno.deptj.eu>
The recent mention of EAV in another thread reminded me of a presentation I went to a year or so ago from a major vertical-market software supplier, where one of the speakers actually boasted about their use of EAV!
They do other strange things as well, one of which is to (in effect) disable the optimizer of the underlying DBMS. There might just be a connection there :-)
Eric
-- ms fnd in a lbryReceived on Thu Feb 05 2015 - 22:48:12 CET