[dba-Tech] “Depend on me, and I’ll set you free!”

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Feb 5 05:01:25 CST 2013


Rant is the word all right.

There are so many things wrong with his arguments that I don't know where to begin. But a 
few immediate points:

He clearly can't tell the difference between "relational database" and "SQL".  
He thinks that a database engine which uses BTree indexing can't be "relational"  (He 
obviously never worked with Dataflex)

His characterisation of all databases as "big, stogy, slow, expensive pain in the rear." 
demonstrates a clear lack of  experience in using them.

How the h*ll can you develop and *test* the use cases and business rules without the 
underlying data?

The data model IS the core of any real world bsiness system.

It's tragic that "an award winning author, renowned speaker, and über software geek since 
1970" has carried the same baggage around with him for 40 odd years.

--
Stuart

P.S.  He was right about one thing though - American beer. Until recently it was like sex in a 
canoe.


On 5 Feb 2013 at 13:52, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:

>  Hi All --
> 
> It's funny I've just planned to try to implement one experimental
> project using "No DB" (NoSQL) approach - and here I have got an
> interesting "rant article" arrived :) 
> 
> http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/05/15/NODB.html
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil 
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