On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:52:21 -0500, Cary Millsap
<cary.millsap_at_hotsos.com> wrote:
> If you ever saw a system that was write-mostly over the long term, then
> there's data going in that's never coming out. You'd have to wonder why
> someone would pay money to store things that are never retrieved.
One of our developers, at a previous employer, was employed to write a
business intelligence system. He did. Then the specifyer of the system
complained that the system only emitted data that was dependent upon
what he put into it. I think that Chris had great presence of mind to
say "Well I *could* write you a system that returns random
information, but I'm not sure it entirely fits with our corporate data
management strategy"
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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