Grant Fritchey (6/12/2014)
... both sides are to blame for not recognizing that it's not code or data that's important, it's the business.
tim.berry 88829 (6/12/2014)
The key resolving the conflict is to encourage communication and understanding.
As a development consultant who crosses into DBA, and in addition deals with "co-workers" who think a DB is just a closet to throw stuff without thoughts of needing to find it again, I find much to agree with in many of the statements. The ones that resonate the most are included above.
Unfortunately management and personalities are not always optimized for understanding.
BTW: Several years ago Oracle introduced a feature where you could substitute good SQL for bad ORM SQL on the fly. Is there anything like that in SQL Server, or in the pipeline for SQL Server?
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