Posts tagged ‘design-antipattern’
- Why EAV is bad, mostly; and why it is used so often on February 3, 2010
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I'm an Oracle developer interested in database design, performance tuning, SQL, PL/SQL, and Application Express (APEX). I live on Iced Coffee.-
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Jeff’s Personal Blog- Organisation? Movement? Philosophy? September 24, 2011What is the Church? An organisation, movement, or philosophy? Or something else? Read this, then consider. Certainly, the Church should not merely be an organisation. The body does do a lot of the things that an organisation does (e.g. hire … Continue reading →
- Organisation? Movement? Philosophy? September 24, 2011
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- CodeSOD: The Query of Despair October 24, 2011Jeroen's colleague had the misfortune of being assigned to debug an intermittent, unspecified error in the one of the oldest of the legacy applications. "The good news is that I've isolated it to a database query," he told Jeroen, "the bad news is that I've isolated it to a database query." Knowing that his colleague wasn […]Alex Papadimoulis
- The Social Development Database October 19, 2011I’ve always been fascinated by development databases — more so sometimes than huge, heavily utilized production ones. Mainly because I’ve seen how the beginnings of a performance problem, or the start of an elegant solution takes shape within a development database. It’s one of the reasons why I love high levels of visibility through full DDL-auditing within […]ddelmoli
- Friday Philosophy – The start of Computing October 7, 2011This week I finally made a visit to Bletchley Park in the middle of England. Sue and I have been meaning to go there for several years, it is the site of the British code-breaking efforts during the second world war and, despite difficulties getting any funding, there has been a growing museum there for a number of years. {Hopefully, a grant from the Heritag […]mwidlake
- CodeSOD: The Query of Despair October 24, 2011
