[dba-Tech] "Depend on me, and I'll set you free!"

Hi Stuart and Peter

That is not fully correct.

With Visual Studio and the Entity Framework you can, in fact, code (write?)
your classes and methods and - when finished - it will create a database
schema that fits.
I have only played with it, but it is fun and quite amazing what it can do.
If you make changes, the framework adjusts the schema to fit.

That said, I cannot imagine how you can test anything without having the
database.

Read about Code First here:
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2011/05/01/pfint_ef-code-first.aspx

/gustav

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Peter Brawley
Sendt: 5. februar 2013 23:45
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] “Depend on me, and I’ll set you free!”

On 2013-02-05 3:21 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Does he have it right?
>
> What does he mean by  "written".  Is that  "documented" or "coded"?

I assumed documented and they survived analytic walkthrough, 'cuz 'coded'
would make no sense without a data backend.

PB

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>
> He says "use cases and business rules written and tested"   To test, you
need code.
> That means he is defining "written" as "coded", not "documented"..
>
> Use cases and business rules documented?   Yes - that's a fundamental part
of systems
> design.
>
> Coded and tested? No way before you have the data model!