Re: Database in depth, by C.J. Date

  • From: stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Ethan.Post@xxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:12:01 +0100

On 14/06/05, Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually as I understand it Einstein was not all that great at math
> either, but he had the ability to conceptualize things that no one else
> could. I believe you can be a pretty good DBA and not really be great at
> math.

Thinking of some of the systems we've had put in by suppliers and the
conversations I've had with their design/development people, I suspect
that some people in the field (quite a lot of them actually) worry
more about how elegantly they can describe the data model in
mathematical terms and not so much about "Will it work?"  There was a
similar culture going around when I used to be a C developer.

I think there has to be a balance between producing pretty diagrams
and producing a system that will actually fulfil the spec and do what
it's supposed to do.

Stephen

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