Re: Oracle Takeover Bid of PeopleSoft Falls Through

"karthik" <anon_at_anon.com> wrote in message news:bdln6h$7hk$1_at_mozo.cc.purdue.edu...
> That, i would blame it on the guy who does and not on the ERP vendor.

That would be your customer. You know the person who owns the data and is paying the ERP company big bucks for one view of it. Placing RI only in the app in my view is purely done to make it easier for the software vendor and harder for the people whose businesses this stuff is supposed to make easier to run.

> From experience, even having stored procedures/triggers must be avoided
> as much as possible if performance is not an issue (as in several master
> data screens). Imagine having to change 4-5 stored procedure programs
> and having to test them for each database for every line of changed code.!

Imagine having to test each changed line of code against every platform you support, my god you might slow the release cycle down and produce quality product. One could go further and test against customers data as well.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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