Nope. Been happening for years. "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Damagement likes to be happy.
Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
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From: Igor Neyman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
same here, is it a new trend?
they say, they don't want to waist my precious time on initial design
meetings :-)
I get to deal with all the crap, they design, afterwards...
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> have you been talking with the 3rd party integrator we've hired? Sure
> sounds like it to me...
>
> they haven't got a DBA in on these talks. How do I know this? I'm the
> only DBA in my group at the moment and I sure haven't been in any
> meetings
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Not so with what you're describing. Sounds like a feature which is
> > ripe for
> > > all kinds of abuse. I can just imagine entire tables populated
> > with columns
> > > of type VARIANT by some designer touting "flexibility" as a mantra.
> >
> > I can see it now:
> >
> > one table in a database
> > two columns, one for primary key, the other for data
> > ( of type ANY of course )
> > all on one server
> > all disk striped a SAME structure as a series of RAID 5 arrays.
> >
> > No DBA?
> >
> > Hell, you don't even need a duhveloper, just use the ODBC
> > interface in MS Excel.
> >
> > Jared
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