"Igor Laletin" <ilaletin_at_usa.net> wrote in message
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> Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
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> > 22 Sep 2002 04:23:35 -0700, Igor Laletin said (and I quote):
> >
> > PMFJI
> >
> > >
> > > I absolutely agree with you. Just such applications are rare. They may
> > > exist in a training course but don't survive in production environment
> > > for long.
> >
> > I'm going away on holidays soon, so I can't go into this like it
> > deserves. Let me just say this: after using Oracle since 1986, I have
> > yet to see out there a "properly designed" application that doesn't
> > exhibit one or more of the symptoms Howard and Karen talk about.
>
> There is no "more". We're talking about just one particular symptom -
> an application allows user to start a transaction and go for a lunch.
>
> So most of the application you worked with since 1986 do that? Bad
> luck.
Every application I have ever worked with allows this. Further more (though
it is a disaster from the RDBMS management point of view) applications
*should* allow this. Suppose the CEO is in the middle of inputting his
expenses for the last month. The phone goes, its the press asking for a
comment on a story about his mismanagement that the main evening news is
about to run. He says 'I can give you a quote but I've just got to finish
this expenses form - the systems we run give me the option of abandoning
half an hours work or keeping at it for the next half hour - I'll call you
when I'm done.'.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Mon Sep 23 2002 - 09:08:02 CDT
