On May 4, 2016 4:56:23 PM EDT, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote: >I think there's something that we're going to have to accept, however, >and that's that there are way more application coders than there are >people who really get database systems. Fixing this problem requires >years of efforts.
I don't really get database systems. I remember this conversation with my professor who said we should use ASCII and not Unicode because we won't need anything beyond the ASCII characters (this was on an Oracle database). As an application developer, I don't know how I'd keep up with the right way to do things(TM) as rdbms keep evolving.
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At one of my first jobs my boss used to tell two truths: "The database will always be inconsistent" and "Indexes are useless, they don't give anything except for slowing down the database". So, don't believe in everything "wise" people say, just think, and check on your own.