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"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be ob
by mmcnl 4y ago
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."
-- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)
- SulphurSmell 4y agoThis is going on my wall. Thanks so much.
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- mmcnl 4y agoI got from a comment on HN a few months ago, so also thank the commenter that I don't remember.
- Aeolun 4y agoThis man has clearly never seen our database schema. Show me either flowcharts and/or tables, it doesn’t matter, I’ll continue to be mystified.
- lazide 4y agoThat will explain a lot probably about many things!
- alliao 4y agoour devs created smash hits such as NounFunction NounFunctionTemporal NounCollectionFunction FunctionNoun_Function FunctionNoun_FunctionItem Noun_Collection Noun_Collection_Function Noun_Collection_FunctionItem i've taken out duplicating combinations where different teams wanted same things over time, but never looked up what others had done before and decided to spin their own...
- Aeolun 4y agoDon’t forget Noun_Collection_Function_20200406 Noun_Collection_Function_20200320_Backup And Noun_Collection_Function_ForJim
- SulphurSmell 4y agoI would be having words with the DBA about this. If there is a DBA. No DBA I would hire would allow this silliness. At least not in the actual application schema.
- spacemanmatt 4y ago> At least not in the actual application schema. And that's how the scratchpad schema became mission-critical ;)
- teddyh 4y agoHe said usually.
- Akronymus 4y agoHey, at least you don't store gender in the address table, where one person can have multiple addresses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842820