(I don't need to evangelize what people like the military and the NSA already know. The overall system belied a general lack of understanding of the power of relationships and revealed that they just didn't ' get it.' They sort of understood, but only sort of.
Decisions about scheduling must be based on truth anything else is just " trying to saunter across a very busy multi-lane highway and hoping you won't be run over by the semi barreling down right at you." ) (Religiosity may be fine as a personal belief system but it does not belong in the boardroom. One of the principals really ' creeped me out' with his attempt at Latin phrases, and ' inspirational' email messages. If I'd listened to him, I'd have been shoving bytes around a table (pun intended) and dealing with shite when what was possible was vastly greater.
He insisted that I stop working on what he thought of as an application when it was really the visible tip of the iceberg of a complete system.
I will say the following, without naming names though: As far as you might be concerned there is/was no such company, project or people. To protect myself, I will never reveal the company, the individuals involved or what the domain was. I determined this before I ever sent in my first invoice so they have nothing to complain about as far as costs. name) Single-Valued versus Multi-valued Attribute (e.g Qualifications) Stored versus Derived Attributes (e.g Age & DoB) Identifier Attributes Identifier - An attribute (or combination of attributes) that uniquely identifies individual instances of an entity type Simple Key versus Composite KeyĦ ERD Example Title FIrstName LastName MovieID Duration CustomerID Address Rating CUSTOMER BirthDate PhoneNumber PRODUCER CompanyID CompanyName CountryĨ Relationships Relationship Types vs.Last summer, (July 2006, when I actually wrote this entry, that I'm only posting in May, 2007) I walked away from a project that was fatally flawed. 1 An Example: Video Rental System Video Rental Database Customers Rentals Videosĥ Attributes Attribute - property or characteristic of an entity type Classifications of attributes: Required versus Optional Attributes Simple versus Composite Attribute (e.g.
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