Comments for Data RuminationsThis engineer has worked with the Oracle DBMS since 1998, and is obsessed with data integrity. Join him as he applies these concepts and technologies to provide improved business processes and value.Comment by jonmc on Bare bones data modeling- June 19, 2008 I just came off of a project where we had a whole lot of modelers and very few programmers. Every time one of the programmers got something working, the modelers would come up with a 'better' way to model the object, and scrap all the 'expletive deletedy' programming that had been done. After several attempts to explain that we were 'bettering' ourselves to death, I left. 3 years and waaaay too much money later, the plug was finally pulled on the project, the data modelers went on to biggerhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/data-ruminations... Comment by ganotedp on Bare bones data modeling- June 15, 2008 Ralph-- I won't even mention that Fred used the La Brea tar pits as an illustration in his book. But yes, absoluletly, the most successful projects I've worked on had a co-operative atmosphere. The least successful had a software team that wrote the application, the database team that designed the database -- simultaneously and independently. Then the "data access team" had to try to figure out how to marry thehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/data-ruminations... Comment by Ralph Wilson on Bare bones data modeling- June 13, 2008 Duke,Since I predate Brooks' book by a few years, does that make me older than IT dirt ;-)Even in 1973, when I first got on a really big project, the team I was on figured out that some people seem to be able to design filestables better than others and some people were better at things like bit-banging and byte-crunching than others, so there was a semmingly nature tendency to give those tasks to those who were good at them. We all worked as a team and none of us (at least, bhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/data-ruminations... |