Re: It is okay for things to break in the future!

Roger L Costello <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.devel
Message-ID <SA9PR09MB59529B9C4989BA3C65F07192C87C9@SA9PR09MB5952.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>
Michael Kay wrote:

> So you're seriously suggesting that just because no employee
> has ever earned a bonus of more than $1m, or has had a
> surname longer than 20 characters, your schema should
> impose these as upper limits?

Absolutely.

If the current worldview is that, then those should be the limits.

In my opinion, the "Golden Rule of Validation" is this:

	Do not treat invalid data
 	as valid.

/Roger
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