Noons wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>> All joking aside ...
>>how many people do you know in IT today that can't, given a single
>>first-normal form table, convert it to 2NF, 3NF, etc.
>
>
> All joking aside? I can count on two hands people in my previous
> job who were familiar with NF. Certainly in the upper management
> spheres there were simply none. And that was an IT organization,
> IBM var and all that jazz.
>
> Ah yes: they all vented as if they knew a lot about it. Then a
> coupla pointed questions later they'd be changing subjects vvf...
>
>
>>More on this later and hopefully something about the American College
>>of Database Professionals: An organization in its formative stages and
>>modeled after other professional organizations such as www.facs.org.
>
>
> Careful with that stuff: an organisation imposed from the "top down"
> instead of being discussed and accepted by the people in the profession
>
> is going to go the same way as the Oracle "certifications":
> right next to the dodo.
>
> Enough of vendor-sponsored "certifying" orgs already....
Nothing I am suggesting is or will be imposed from the top down. What I
am doing is looking for like-minded professionals to join our effort.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Mon Aug 01 2005 - 10:22:52 CDT
