Re: OT: sheltered little world i live in -> NODB?

My US$0.02...
When I read that article, especially the part about an implicitly ignorant 
"marketing guy" claiming that a relational database is needed, and that flat 
files won't work, I hear a blinkered technical niche-worker who sees only his 
own little job function and cannot conceive of any other requirements, such as 
downstream data analytics, data mining, and data warehousing. I see an 
organization strangling for lack of ad-hoc access to data, choking on the 
software development lifecycle, flogging overworked developers who struggle to 
churn out new reports from arbitrary and unstructured flat-file structures.

Like "Uncle Bob" here, I also heard a "marketing guy" give a similar message 
some years ago, saying that the cutting-edge application on which I was working 
needed to be scrapped and rebuilt due to a technology mistake. This "marketing 
guy", like Uncle Bob's in his rant, was totally correct, and I've given him the 
pseudonym "Joe" in my account of that story found online here, which was also a 
chapter in the "Tales Of The Oak Table" book.

Thank goodness folks like "Uncle Bob" mostly exist in the blogosphere as 
critics or pundits, lacking real authority. The IT industry is chock full of 
examples of the "Peter Principle", people promoted one step (or more) beyond 
their level of competency, with disastrous results. This guy, like myself, was 
fortunate enough to step away into independent consulting, so that we could 
remain voluntarily petrified in our chosen discipline at our chosen level of 
expertise, and thus minimize the damage from making important decisions for 
large organizations.

The difference is, I know I did so to avoid falling victim to a job promotion 
too far. "Uncle Bob" seems to indicate that he did it because he's right and 
the world is wrong.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephens, Chris [mailto:Chris.Stephens@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 01:22 PM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: OT: sheltered little world i live in -> NODB?

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.htmlFrom 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 
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