You'd almost have to be God to fix it.it consists of 1000s of tables.
It took me 2 weeks to reverse into Designer. My customer is not welling to
pay for the time to fix the design.
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Dick,
question for yaif you "owned" Siebel, lock, stock and barrel,
what would you do?
1) Fix and switch ALL RI to the database ( oracle and ms and ibm and others)
2) Just fix it where it is broken, but leave it in the app itself
3) leave it out but publish a tech spec document telling user
Dennis,
Maybe I'm naive, or I'm giving too much credit to those making the purchase,
but I feel that for applications the size and cost of most ERPs you could
market them using features such as stability and data integrity along with
the bells and whistles. A cleaner schema would also make it eas
Damn. I've been wracking my brain all day trying to figure out how to say
this.
Thanks, Dennis.
--Walt Weaver
Bozeman, Montana
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Henry - The issue isn't the major RDBMS vendors, altho
Henry - The issue isn't the major RDBMS vendors, although there can be
interesting variations among them when it comes to how RI is implemented.
Most successful ERP packages have been around for a number of years, so they
have had to be available on many platforms. On some of those platforms the
p
Another good one is when they change the application from flat files to an
RDBMS.. And then continue to forget all about relational database theory..
Love it!!
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Henry,
I am so
Just curious, but which of the major RDBMSs don't have RI?
Henry
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Another factor is that when RI was first introduced, people tended to
overuse it and then performance was bad. I don't
Another factor is that when RI was first introduced, people tended to
overuse it and then performance was bad. I don't think this is such a
problem today, but I think many ERP packages were either developed before RI
was common to all SQL databases, or were discouraged by the initial
problems. But
