On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 02:05 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > > > > > Wonder how many systems are out there like that > > > > A lot. A lot a lot. Most of them, in my experience. A business owner tends to talk about what they do by describing the 85% - the way things "normally" work. As developers, we spend a lot more time and effort managing the 15 - or 11 or 7 or 3% - of the edge cases where, for example, an order can have sub-orders, meaning you need a self-join design, tree traversal, loop avoidance; or an ability to split commissions across sales, which implies a one-to one-or-many design. While most businesses can describe their workflow with less than a dozen boxes on a whiteboard, it always seems to require fifty tables :) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tTdFxhEkM5ShtMhCu6HOz_LZz4gjuVSu4Nb=ij2rw...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
