Re: A WTF in the Oracle reference...

Now that I know what book it is and have looked at it in context, I would say it could be sometimes profoundly retarded. For example, using names as a natural key would likely necessitate some data massage to keep it consistent in order to search without using functions. Keeping the data all caps with another primary key would be retarded. Letting the users denormalize primary keys by being able to put in MacDonald and Macdonald would be profoundly retarded.

Would you believe I spent a couple of hours yesterday dealing with something similarly profoundly retarded. One must perfect the art of naming things without implied value judgements, lest the users realize what you think and stop paying you.

jg

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