Re: OT: sheltered little world i live in -> NODB?
- From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:46:00 -0500
He does have a valid point however. In my experience DBA's are prone to
the 'if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a
nail' fallacy. I have run into several instances of people using a hugely
expensive and cpu intensive oracle database to do things that a flat file
could have handled quite well, eg, storing a complete record of everyone
that connected to their network using source ip, and username. Or even
people storing completely non-persistent data (ie, just a queueing problem)
in an oracle ee database.
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris,
> So this person thinks that the use cases will be nailed down up front?
> For some probably strange reason I find that to be quite funny.
>
> If we idealize the problem and assume away all of the other details it
> really is just that simple.
> Just have a "database" for each use case and when new use cases develop
> write some interface between the data stored for each of the use cases.
> Each can reside in memory only.
> Brilliant!
>
> I think that it will only require one table with 1023 columns each with
> datatype anydata. That way it will be flexible. And it will only require
> one sequence.
>
> Paul
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Stephens, Chris <Chris.Stephens@xxxxxxx
> >wrote:
>
> > I understand many still like to see business logic placed outside of the
> > database and that ORM's are very popular but I didn't expect to see
> > experienced software developers to have opinions like this:
> > http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/05/15/NODB.html
> >
> > From what I can tell, this guy has written a several very popular books
> > and articles on software development.
> >
> > Not sure why I'm posting this to the list other than the fact that I just
> > didn't expect something like this to pop up in my RSS reader.
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> > Chris
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