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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:27 pm
by Malcolm
Have you ever seriously used an E-R diagram for anything? It's like taking a logical design scheme and shooting out its kneecaps.
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:28 pm
by Mommy Dearest
Malcolm wrote:Have you ever seriously used an E-R diagram for anything? It's like taking a logical design scheme and shooting out its kneecaps.
As in "Doing Business As"?
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:55 pm
by thibodeaux
Data-Base Administrator.
I am not a DBA, but I've done my share of table and proc development. Never done an ERD. Foreign Key? Wuzzat?
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:07 am
by Malcolm
thibodeaux wrote:Data-Base Administrator.
I am not a DBA, but I've done my share of table and proc development. Never done an ERD. Foreign Key? Wuzzat?
They just seem so damned worthless to me, like someone intentionally went out of their way to make them bafflingly limited.
Fucking lame-ass database course.
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:51 am
by TheCatt
I'm a fake DBA, but I only used ERDs as a developer. I usually would do a logical diagram, then follow with a physical table diagram. Used them for programs with over 15 entities, going up to 200-300 entities.
I like em, but almost all my development is very DB-centric, so getting the DB right matters a ton.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:27 pm
by Malcolm
Mayhaps it just reminds me too much of the fucking UML diagrams in the equally fucking lame-ass software engineering course.
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:07 pm
by TheCatt
Maybe. I just think of it as a map of the database. Helpful for designing ETL processes and such.
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:08 pm
by GORDON
Having come of age on an AS/400, I've always thought the job of "DBA" was a scam. I've never seen a dedicated DBA in a 400 shop, and I've been around and in some huge shops.
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:26 am
by TheCatt
Oracle is a scam.
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:08 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:Oracle is a scam.
So's auto insurance. But it still turns a profit.
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