Timeline for When did developers start making normalized relational databases?
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| Jul 19, 2011 at 17:11 | vote | accept | Peter Turner | ||
| Jul 19, 2011 at 6:34 | answer | added | Permas | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 3:26 | comment | added | Peter Turner | @devoured, we've actually benefited from DB platform independence (in a very small way) because of the blissful ignorance, it wasn't until very recently that you could count on foreign keys actually doing the same thing on MySQL and SQLServer and it was futile to try. Now, however, it is a pain in the butt because I don't want to continue down that course any more. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 21:52 | comment | added | devoured elysium | TBH, I find it odd that in all those decades they didn't get what the advantages of having tables in 3NF was, even not knowing what 3NF was. A lot of people have tables in 3NF without knowing it, just because it's what feels right. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 20:49 | comment | added | Mchl | A math major? Did he skip his relational algebra classes? | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:59 | comment | added | maple_shaft♦ | God forbid you have to rewrite an application that is over 20 years old. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:48 | answer | added | user4828 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:40 | comment | added | Peter Turner | @GrandmasterB, I'm beginning to think so too. Although given the current size of the program, I think we'd have to rewrite the whole dang thing to normalize it. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:40 | answer | added | JeffO | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:39 | comment | added | GrandmasterB | Given the number of people who use SQL without ever taking a class in the subject, thats sort of a BS excuse on their part. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:38 | comment | added | Peter Turner | @thursdaysgeek, they're all under 50, the guy with the most experience went to school in Ukraine - although I think he was a math major. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:36 | comment | added | thursdaysgeek | How old are these guys?! I went to school in the mid-80's and it was taught then, and I didn't stop learning when I graduated, either. I'm 50 -- are they in their 70s and 80s? | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:30 | answer | added | Satanicpuppy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:25 | answer | added | Bob Murphy | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:02 | comment | added | Peter Turner | @benzado, no comment! | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:02 | answer | added | Matthieu | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:01 | comment | added | benzado | ...they never learned about them in school and never bothered to read a book or an article in the intervening years? I hope for your sake those older devs are no longer writing code. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 19:00 | answer | added | Marjan Venema | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 18:58 | answer | added | Robert Harvey | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 18:58 | history | edited | Peter Turner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
imho correct = normalized and normalized != inflamitory
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| S Jul 18, 2011 at 18:54 | history | suggested | SoylentGray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed the inflamatory language in the title this is a good question but the correctly moniker makes it inflamatory
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| Jul 18, 2011 at 18:48 | history | asked | Peter Turner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |