Once upon a time, long long ago, before the publisher put a limit on the size of my book, I was going include a chapter on Dogma Wars in database development. In keeping with the use of verbs-as-titles for all the other chapters, this chapter was going to be called "Debating":
Chapter 11 Debating
- NULL versus NOT NULL
- If It's Not Normalized, It's Not Right
- Artificial Keys are OK! Artificial Keys are Evil!
- Isolation Level 0 versus 1, 2, 3, Snapshot
- No Access to Base Tables, Only "Base Views"
- Optimistic versus Pessimistic Concurrency Control
- SELECT * is OK! SELECT * is Evil!
- Goofy Naming Conventions
- CASE Tools Suck, Notepad Rules!
- Schemas Via Ownership
- Checking For Errors
3 comments:
Interesting topcis - and I would like to hear your point of view (particularly as it is going to be poignant:))
V. Barth
Obviously the most interesting chapter has not yet been written! (Although I did find the material that is already included in the book to be very educational and useful.) I would love to hear you expound on these topics.
CASE tools - I wonder how many people who really have the choice actually use them?
Justin Willey
PS only just spotted your blog Breck
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