Re: Am I too hard on the developper ?

Stay on it. Dropping tables to add columns in development is just plain stupid.

Jared

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] paquette stephane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I do not know if it's friday afternoon or what ?
> The developpers want me to regenerate the grants in
> the development environment because they're running a
> script that drops and recreates a new version of the
> tables.
> I asked them : Could you do an alter table instead ?
>
> The developpers : What ! they'are at least 10 new
> fields !
>
> I used to be a developper, I do not remember myself
> dropping and recreating everything each time I add a
> new field . Anyway in production, only the new stuff
> goes in.
>
> Any comments ?
>
> =====
> Stephane Paquette
> DBA Oracle
> stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com
>
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