GSquared (1/9/2012)
But what most developers mean by "Agile" is actually "Cowboy". Database development can be quite Agile. It creates a horrible mess when it's done Cowboy-Coder style.
Eloquently stated sir.
I've seen a few of these cowboy designs. The thing that amazes me is it really doesn't take much longer to come up with a real design Vs. a hack. Any disparity reverses itself when you factor in the countless man hours needed to support the cowboy design (fixing bugs & hacking it even more to add features).
The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.