"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:1109265514.819958_at_yasure...
> Haximus wrote:
>
>>>I agree entirely. Daniel has already illustrated a point to ponder,
>>>namely DDL against the table adding/modifying/dropping columns.
>>>'Select *' should break, or the application code receiving the
>>>resultset from 'select *' should cause something to break. I hate to
>>>say this, but the request screams laziness on the part of the
>>>programmer. Why should Oracle reward such laziness?
>>>
>>>It's a mystery.
>>
>>
>> Because I'm the customer and the customer is always right! As for your
>> comment, you're definitely not an innovative thinker...
>
> The customer may always be right ... but I doubt you are the customer.
> I suspect "the customer" pays your salary and would take a dim view of
> something that would break so many applications.
Then you would be making assumptions without facts. Logical people with any
sort of intellectual integrity never assume anything unless they are 100%
prepared to defend those assumptions.
Received on Fri Feb 25 2005 - 01:50:51 CST
