Curt Sampson

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September 27, 2005, on Teaching Software Engineering (**** draft ****):
I worry about the RDBMS side here; it looks to me a bit as if it's being treated as a dumb data store, and is ignoring the integrity and logical aids that the relational model gives you. In particular, comments such as "No students discovered the table inheritance features of PostgreSQL, for example, and some built data models that could have used these features to great advantage," are very disturbing; that particular feature is not only a failed experiment in a non-relational data management style that's simply never been removed from the source, but is actively broken, allowing things such as duplicate keys. In doing "enterprise" applications, many of them with large web-based components, I've found the hardest part is producing a logical model of the business or service, yet that model is one of the most valueable things for both technical and business development. It's the relational model of data management that's given me the ability to work out and specify these models. Bu...