Re: What's that line again about 'best practices'?

I can't recall what James called them. FWIW, I try to use Industry Standard practices or Common Practices. Usually, that's enough to communicate the idea that Mark expresses, that these should be seen as a starting point or a default that is unlikely to hurt you. I also have a soft spot for Tom Kytes "Never say never, Never say always. That's what I always say".

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:28 PM Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:

> James Morle suggested something along the lines that they should be
> renamed Usual Practices (or something like that). I’ve called them Standard
> Minimum Starting Points and I pointed out that the only best practice I
> know of is to not allow things to be called best practices. Calling
> something a “best practice” tends to stifle attempts to do better.
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> IF you can get something called a best practice into your service delivery
> standards and you implement that practice, you have a legal defense whether
> or not the users can do anything or not.
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> Nothing can be proven to be a best practice. Things called best practice
> are sometimes really just good enough to be acceptable.
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> You’ve probably caught the drift I believe “best practice” is a harmful
> term. Some things called “best practices” are really quite good initial
> starting points or usual practices that are just fine unless you need
> something better.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris Taylor
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 27, 2022 1:59 PM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* OT: What's that line again about 'best practices'?
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> Mark or someone has an idiom I want to save this time....
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> Something about best practices being written by people who don't have to
> support them or something .....
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> Chris
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