Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss content posted by Timothy Claason Decoupling in Relational Databases RE: Decoupling in Relational Databases

  • March 4, 2010 at 7:11 pm

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    timclaason (3/3/2010)

    And although the "SQL Ninjas" out there were quite offended by the simplicity of the article, along with non-standard terms I used (normalization versus decoupling, bridge tables versus link tables), I personally think that this article could be beneficial to people trying to grasp concepts that they may have missed in their "relational databases 101" class in school.

    Heh... not all of the "SQL Ninjas" are offended... at least not the practical ones. BWAA-HAA!!!... think about it. Some of the people making ad hominem attacks have supposedly been in the business for 30 years and haven't heard the term "bridge table". I pretty sure I wouldn't take offense to that. 😉

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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