In defence of the fat database

#11

On 7 Okt, 14:26, Nilone <rea... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

LOL, thanks. *I've read it - check the "Entity and identity" thread.
As you say, it's a pretty good summary.

Aw, yes indeed, the article has been covered in this group.

Lauri

#12

On 7 Okt, 14:26, Nilone <rea... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Regarding the object/relational missmatch, i think this is a pretty
good summary
of the situation "on the ground":

http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/2...mputer+Science...

Lauri

LOL, thanks. *I've read it - check the "Entity and identity" thread.
As you say, it's a pretty good summary.

Aw yes, I see that the "Vietnam" article has been discussed in this
group already...

Lauri

#13

On 7 oct, 12:25, Roy Hann <specia... (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote:

Quote:

Nilone wrote:
My hobby horse at the moment is to
understand the problems of entities and objects.

Leave such concepts to artisans. *Entertaining those two concepts
(whatever one thinks they are) is the very first step towards confusing
the data with the real world. *Once you do that you are lost.
I have a lot of respects for artisans and craftsman since they usually

take great care into their science

Not much about the description
of the world through the eyes of sloppy object minds and concepts.

Perhaps, a better analogy would be to compare the explanations of the
world through the eyes of OO crowd as the explanations of how to turn
lead into gold. In other words, OO crowd are the nothing else than
the alchemists of computer science.

> Roy

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