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Title: RE: [xml-dev] Web Services Best Practice (was: Interesting XML-DI ST-APP thread)
It is
awfully easy with MS Access to build a database that works
fine
locally, and won't scale. The GUI tool is a boon though. We
get
hundreds of requests for ad hoc querying for our systems. We
tell
them that a third party report generator (Access, Crystal Reports, etc)
is the
way to go. ODBC is a pretty nice idea all things being equal.
While
not DBAs, many of our customers really shouldn't
need
to understand everything they are doing; they should understand
what
they need to do.
But if
the schema document sucks, even that falls apart.
len
Seems analogous to the argument that DBAs who use GUI
tools don't really understand what they're actually doing.
Seems to me that RAD and drag and drop development leads you
down
this path, you are developing so 'quickly' that
you don't step
back and look at the architectural
issues until it's too late.
Regards,
Rob Griffin
Quest Software
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