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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> 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

*rofl*  we should have an anecdotes section for stuff like this on our web
site ;)

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