Re: standards

From: Peter Robson <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:54:49 +0100
Message-ID: <1993522063.20040805095449@bgs.ac.uk>

Hmmm, challenging. I liked the suggestion of looking for worst practices first. But be careful - some organisations don't like to be told about that sort of thing...

FWIW - I established standards based on all manner of experience, user feedback, etc etc, and then documented those standards into the database itself. 'Metadata', with its own schema. Then I built a large number of exception reports which a) validate that the metadata is itself consistent and complete, and b) tests with exception reporting that the database-proper conforms to the standards expressed in the metadata. There is a satisfying orthogonality to having everything in the database. Saves wear on the carpet too...

Last point - it is a MAJOR and time-consuming undertaking, and will continue for as long as you are running a database.

peter
edinburgh

ps - talking about a) & b) at UK-OUG this autumn

Wednesday, August 4, 2004, 11:45:22 PM, you wrote:

D> I ahve been asked to write the standards for the company in terms of
D> Oracle databases.
D> I have never done anythign like that before...
D> Anyone have any pointers or skeletons or examples I could review?
D> Cheers

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