Class::DBI and stalinesque hiding of THE TRUTH

[Dave Cross]

Quoting Ovid <publiustemp-londonpm at yahoo.com>:

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk>
>
>> Sad but true. I can't understand why so many people use a "relational
>> database" which is lacking so many of the standard relational database
>> features.
>
> For the same reason that folks claim they know how to normalize a   
> database yet don't understand why you can't use a company name for a  
>  key or they fail to pull out duplicate data in a column because   
> "joins just complicate things".

Yep. Which is why I'm running this tutorial at YAPC::Europe.

   Advanced Databases for Beginners - Dave Cross
   Wednesday, Lecture Room 2, 1400, 180 mins
   http://www.birmingham2006.com/cgi-bin/yapc.pl?act=talk-item&talkid=50

> I think they need to insert a corkscrew into their left nostril and  
> twist vigorously, but hey, that's just me.

No. I feel that way too sometime. But most of the time I'm a lot  
calmer and just want to force them to read "Database in Depth"[1]  
until they understand it all.

Dave...

[1] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/databaseid/

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