[LINK] The Ethics (!) of Dodgy Web Designers

[Roger Clarke]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 07:37 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>  It is called ACID. If you have never heard the term, or are not trained
>  in even the basics espounded by the brilliant writer Date, you should
>  not be let within striking distance of a database. It *IS* rocket
>  science in this case.

Gee, you had me worried there for a moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

Let's see now:
-   transaction boundaries and rollback cover Atomicity and Isolation
-   domain specification for data-items covers Consistency
-   audit-trail covers Durability

Okay, I'm over-simplifying.  (And I'm using terms from the 70s and 80s).

I accept that these criteria [I deleted the word 'currently-in' 
because I see a reference to a 1992 ISO!!] are useful generalisations 
of longstanding principles, and that if I went back to design and 
development (assuming anyone bothers with design these days), then 
I'd need to pay heed to them.

But I've got this vague feeling that there may be one or two *other* 
things, which together would add up to an altogether longer word 
(acidity?  acidiferous?).

And Karl, to be fair to Rick, I think he meant "within striking 
distance of [application development using a] database", rather than 
a mere user.

[Now will that attempt at molification successfully avoid another 
beside-the-point thread?!]

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