Re: any data modeling forums?

RE: any data modeling forums?Hey - I'm with April - I may be getting older and 
hallucinating, but I still like to think the reason I get paid above the 
minimum wage is for the quality of my DB design.... :)

A good database design is worth its weight in gold - unfortunately there seem 
to be very few of those these days - I've seen what comes out of too many 
commercial products that claim to support every database going with the same 
DDL.  Design is an art form - one for me that elicits the same kind of passion 
with which a great DBA proudly polishes his/her database.  I've lost count of 
how many times I've seen shops hire more consultants come in to clean up the 
mess left behind by the original consultants - but then I guess you get what 
you pay for.

Richard.
Your brain is like a database - you simply have to know how to access it 
(anon.).
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: April Wells 
  To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' 
  Sent: March 31, 2004 08:26
  Subject: RE: any data modeling forums?


  NOOOOOOOoooooooooooo 

  There are weird people out here who still TRY to design databases.  We often 
get told to sit down and shut up in meetings... but we are out here.

  April Wells 
  Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA 
  Corporate Systems 
  Amarillo Texas 
   @>-->-->-- 
  "Few people really enjoy the simple pleasure of flying a kite" 
  Adam Wells age 11 
  "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." 
  Lauren Bacall 



  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:20 AM 
  To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Subject: RE: any data modelling forums? 



  Does anyone *design* databases these days, aren't they just patterns and 
models and objects or generated on the fly by application code?

  Niall Litchfield 
  Oracle DBA 
  Audit Commission 
  +44 117 975 7805 




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