Re: Theory adrift: creative use of databases

Erwin wrote:

> Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 23:27:26 UTC+1 schreef Nicola:
>> In article <>,
>> Erwin <> wrote:
>>
>> > Uploaded the story as a pdf at
>> > http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~erwin/Images/inreplytonicola.pdf
>>
>> "[...] And that was a major problem because they regarded integrity of
>> the database as absolutely crucial." You've made my day!
>>
>> That beautiful symmetric model is so dense of astute tricks that it is
>> worth a second read tomorrow!
>>
>> Nicola
>
> In fact they made many not-so-dumb decisions. Except then for the
> initial choice of whose business they'd be modeling. Their own, not
> their customers'. I guess this is what happens when you run a shop that
> has only programmers and not a single data guy.

One sees a similar thing every day when the programmers decide to use an ORM framework. You get a not-very-good object store implemented in an SQL database, not facts about the state of the business. Those are out of reach, concealed within the object "model" if they exist anywhere.

Maybe I have been unlucky lately but I sense this is now the norm not the exception.

(I blame it on the numerical superiority of programmers. And I blame that on their poor productivity.)

Roy Received on Thu Feb 19 2015 - 13:59:13 CET