Friday, August 04, 2006

Bits n Bytes - Databases Programming Practices

In a slightly off-dated but worthwhile article on SQL programming conventions, Joe Celko, a premier SQL Guru writes " .... After more than 25 years of the relational model, people are still writing SQL as if it were a 1950s punch card file system. It takes time for a new tool to find its own voice. Motion pictures were originally shot from a fixed position because that is how people viewed stage plays. The engine in a car is in front because that is where the horse went. ... " for further reading visit

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

An insight into the bad prorgramming habbits. good article !
-iftikhar
darmstadt

Hamza Hydri said...

thanks .....