I am a big fan of creating at least the basic structure of your database from the domain model using hibernate. But if you work with Oracle you know on problem with this approach: the length of names is seriously limited for tables and columns. So if you have a inner class with embeddables you [...]
I try to minimize the use of database specific programming languages like PL/SQL. It is just annoying to work with a language that is just badly designed and has hardly any serious tool support. It (and the IDEs around it) is lacking in so many ways. All the things I would expect from the most [...]
I wrote before about the maturity (or lack thereof) of the art of software development in the database realm. So did others. One thing I noted is that there is no discussion on how to break down a database into modules or packages. So today instead of mainly complaining, I’going to make a proposal on [...]
