Re: It is okay for things to break in the future!
Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 11:36 AM C. M. Sperberg-McQueen < [email protected]> wrote: > (I have > heard, more often than I care to think, that the schema in an RDBMS is > effectively impossible to change, although one of the key innovations in > the development of RDBMS was precisely that it's easier to change the > schema than previously). > > Easier to change because data independence meant changes in the physical structures of the database weren't exposed to the applications. People who never experienced schema changes in pre-relational databases (which has now become the norm) don't appreciate it.