Tuesday, February 21, 2006
How not to design a database
There are flat files. Then there are relational databases. Don't confuse the two, especially not with XML.
This gentleman's comment was perhaps the best:
This gentleman's comment was perhaps the best:
I swear to god, I made a joke about doing just this very thing on Slashdot today.
My joke was arguably worse, though, as the "data" took the form of serialized objects instead of xml fragments.
