From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: And now for an example of a different style of
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:37:31 -0800
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Robert,

> Probably why I now work on the database side; everyone 
> *thinks* they can do design, but people rarely look at a website and think 
> "they should have used 3 tables and a view to handle that data" :-)

You should meet some of my clients:

Exec: "I think we should unify everything on MySQL."
Me: "But MySQL won't support our reporting tools."
Exec: "Of course it will."
Me: "When did MySQL add support for UNION queries and custom functions?"
Exec: "I don't know.  I don't understand this database stuff.  That's what I 
have you for."
Me: sigh

Really .....

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco