... He didn't said the dependent systems were analytic-treatment based. Perhaps are these OLTP subsystems only used for load sharing or historical reasons. The...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Feb 15, 2006 9:05 pm
... In an ideal world, not much. However, in many organizations there is a strict difference between DBAs and developers, and never the two shall meet. One...
927
Dawn Wolthuis
tincatgroup
Feb 15, 2006 9:18 pm
... Agreed and that is what I tend to argue. I prefer no DBA team in a shop, even if there are some roles that are held by various developers. ... definitely...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Feb 15, 2006 9:53 pm
... In large organizations you typically need some sort of operational data admin group that support the corporate guidelines, understands the legacy data...
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Dawn Wolthuis
tincatgroup
Feb 15, 2006 11:11 pm
On 2/15/06, Scott W. Ambler <swa@...> wrote: <snip> ... Like Fortran and COBOL are here to stay. Oracle buying Sleepycat is a good sign that they...
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Steve Jorgensen
jorgens23
Feb 16, 2006 4:37 am
... Ah - but if it's for load sharing, then the approach should be to reduce code duplication between the applications that make use of the data. This way, the...
931
Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Feb 16, 2006 8:37 am
... I entirely disagree. I think that, if anything the relational model, with its emphasis on limiting queries to what data you want, rather than how to access...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Feb 16, 2006 12:07 pm
... Can you expand on this a bit? Perhaps an example? Thanks. - Scott...
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Willem Bogaerts
toetah2000
Feb 17, 2006 7:31 am
<snip> ... <snip> ... The thing that I like the LEAST of SQL is the fact that it _is_ a language. I would like an object-oriented structure that exists on the ...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Feb 17, 2006 8:37 am
... A simple example would be a table with one column that tends to be large compared to the rest of the data. Say I've got a row overhead of 42 bytes,...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Feb 17, 2006 8:39 am
... You've got to consider, for this API, how you're going to do the more complex queries that keep network traffic and database I/O load down. For queries...
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Alex Weatherall
alexweatherall
Feb 17, 2006 5:09 pm
Hi, <snip> * Transactional support for DDL and schema changes. Excepting PostgreSQL, I don't think that there's a single DBMS out there that lets me roll back...
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Nolen, Terry
twnolen
Feb 17, 2006 5:33 pm
I've been watching the correspondence and I'm intrigued by the debate. I've been administrating databases for quite a long time, even before relational was...
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Willem Bogaerts
toetah2000
Feb 19, 2006 7:07 pm
... That's exactly what I mean. How on earth do you want to incorporate this in an object oriented program? What does it mean actually? What you describe is...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Feb 22, 2006 3:40 am
... It is certainly a query. It declaratively specifies a particular set of data you'd like to see. And it's not uncommon for me to do queries just like this...
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Dawn Wolthuis
tincatgroup
Feb 22, 2006 3:54 am
... <snip> ... Or skip the relational language in the solution altogether. My experience has been that end-to-end efforts that leave out the RM provide more...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Feb 23, 2006 3:48 am
... This seems to me typical of where people have gone wrong in the agile vs. database battle. I would suspect that most of us would agree with the following...
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Dawn Wolthuis
tincatgroup
Feb 23, 2006 4:29 pm
... I suspect you are correct that most would agree with that statement. I don't. I recognized that in my experience (strictly anecdotal), I spent far fewer...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Feb 24, 2006 5:57 pm
In December 2005 the Cutter Consortium published a collection of articles entitled "Agile Data Techniques" which I edited. A PDF can be downloaded free of...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Feb 25, 2006 1:02 pm
I was recently interviewed by Floyd Marinescu regarding the upcoming Waterfall 2006 conference (www.waterfall2006.com). The video is posted at...
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Willem Bogaerts
toetah2000
Feb 25, 2006 10:26 pm
(re-send; original somehow got sent to the poster instead of the group) ... Just curious: what does that pseudo code look like? ... No. Not if you bear in mind...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Mar 3, 2006 11:51 am
Forwarding this to a few lists, my apologies if you receive multiple copies. As you can imagine, I'm very eager to see talks submitted regarding Agile...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Mar 7, 2006 1:42 pm
I'm happy to announce that Refactoring Databases ( http://www.ambysoft.com/books/refactoringDatabases.html ), written by myself and Pramod Sadalage, is now...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Mar 9, 2006 6:40 pm
I'm happy to announce that after 9 years the OMG has finally seen things my way. ;-) At http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ab/05-12-02 is the RFP and I invite...
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John Hanna
johnh3827
Mar 11, 2006 4:14 pm
Scott - This IMM (Information Management Metamodel) RFP seems like interesting progress, but I'm bothered by what seems to be missing. There is no direct...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Mar 11, 2006 5:43 pm
... That's why a range of people need to get involved. You need to remember that this is only an RFP. The various solutions will differ in what they address....
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joriswijlens
Mar 22, 2006 3:31 am
Hi, I'm java developer I have to build a transactional system. The two DBA's\database developers that I work with have a datawarehouse background. They have...
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Willem Bogaerts
toetah2000
Mar 22, 2006 7:04 am
... Reading your message, it is not. It may be difficult to *automatically* map it. ... I still see this as a kind of inheritance hierarchy. It is exactly how ...
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Steve Jorgensen
jorgens23
Mar 22, 2006 7:36 am
... Well, my first point would be that this is typical non-Agile DBA behavior. They've built the maximum amount of flexibility into the schema up front to...
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Scott W. Ambler
scottwambler
Mar 22, 2006 11:28 am
Sounds to me that: 1. They're applying data warehousing (OLAP) techniques in an OLTP environment. So, a design strategy mismatch shouldn't be a surprise. 2....
