Re: Would be really nice if...

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:38:55 -0800
Message-ID: <1109298953.738334@yasure>

Haximus wrote:

>> You completely missed the point of the demo.
>>
>> In one case two columns are returned ... in the other case three.

>
>
> Yes I got that, I just thought it was pointless because you, as a
> highly-paid IT professional, are paid to understand there are
> repercussions when altering structures and schemas. If for some reason
> a new column mysteriously pops up in table structure, as in your demo,
> it's because someone else has control of your databases and is doing
> things that you as the designer and modeler probably don't want them
> doing (without your guidance). I could make a demo showing that
> deleting a column can break everything, it would have about the same
> significance as your demo because it's a 'no-brainer.'
>

>> It doesn't matter whether you put your clause into the ORDER BY, were >> that possible, it still breaks everything.

Actually I would have thought that you as a supposedly competent developer would understand the development life-cycle and would appreciate the cost of going back over code: modifying and testing it, just because a schema was modified.

Apparently not.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 20:38:55 CST