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jezemine
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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mcrowley
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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blindman
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
2365 Posts |
 Posted - 05/15/2007 : 16:47:17
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I really wish he weren't at DBFORUMS.com....
For some reason he has a reputation as a guru, but I've never personally gotten any useful advice from him on the time's he's responded to my Oracle posts. So he does not impress me.
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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
USA
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Kristen
Test
United Kingdom
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Kristen
Test
United Kingdom
22191 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2007 : 07:01:09
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"Newbies need proper naming conventions for Subject"
Nice one Madhi! I might have guessed you would say this should be done Client-side ...  |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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Kristen
Test
United Kingdom
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
Sweden
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
USA
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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pootle_flump
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 05:04:34
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You know - I don't think he qualifies for twit.
I think the thing that is being missed with that thread is he is talking about a very narrow set of circumstances and a very controlled implementation. I think I believe him when he says he has it working. Still more cons than pros to the whole field for me to ever want to look at doing the same but I don't consider him a twit. He has thought it all out in far too much depth to be dismissed as a noob too. |
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blindman
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 11:11:49
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Exactly which post has he said "By the way, this is only for a very narrow set of circumstances." Fact is, he is advocating this as a default data structure.
Twit, twit, twit.
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pootle_flump
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 11:46:52
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Originally posted by blindman
Fact is, he is advocating this as a default data structure.
Not true. I've summarised the criteria he uses as I see it.
The other thing is - this guy has clearly had this working (within the constraints he mentions) for a number of years. Lots of experts have now come on and told him it doesn't work and is a folly. His refusal to say "oh sh1t - you are right. My db is totally b0rked" is taken as stubborness & ignorance. Clearly (again given the caveats) it has worked for him.
Will never recommend it. Will never attempt to implement one myself. Not defending the idea but I am coming round to believing that it has worked for him.
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 11:50:17
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"Did you know Kristen's app uses an OTLT?"
Rubbish ... we have TWO such tables |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 11:51:22
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| In case anyone is stupid enough to be interested: we have one table that we ship with upgrades that only contains application-hardwired lookups, and the second is for ones that the client can change - we don't ship an override for that ... |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
Slovenia
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 11:53:51
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you know kristen that's a rubbish design. you should change it to TNF just in case 
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pootle_flump
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 11:59:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Kristen
"Did you know Kristen's app uses an OTLT?"
Rubbish ... we have TWO such tables
Two One True Lookup Tables? In the words of Connor MacLeod "There can be only one!" |
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