OK, my biggest beef (well, one of them (:=)) is separating the front and back end development. They are two sides of the same coin, and should be done by...

We make a fine product, OneData Registry, that will handle all of your ISO 11179 needs (:=).

Actually, we do! http://www.datafoundations.com

The answer, as always, is "it depends". What are you trying to optimize for?

I used to work for Smith Corona. Remember them? I call it the company too stupid to live. They had Palm 5 years before Palm did. Oh well...

Anyways, I did...

Managing is really parenting people who you don't love, who are frequently older than you.

Very nice article. I'm an Oracle person who's dabbled in SQL, yes, it does seem very true that SQL is not SQL (shhh, don't tell the recruiters (:=))

My pleasure Bryant! That's why I wrote the article. For all of our religious arguments, programming really isn't theology, it's a means to an end. If I get people to...

Thanks. Just a note, I am pretty much an Oracle guy, so I can't answer any SQL specific questions.

I thought it was that commercial. I remember seeing it on TV, didn't think much of it at the time...

Anyways, notice how nature seems to prefer the scattershot diversity? I...

I'm an Oracle guy, don't know the SQL world very well, but I think it is more a question of writing vs. drawing code. Writing code will always be more...

The ultimate ETL tool is (drum roll, please) the

INSERT INTO xxx

SELECT yyy

FROM zzz

I'm an Oracle guy mostly, but this is fairly constant. I find the graphic ETL tools extremely costly...

I find the problems with data quality aren't technical, but human. The biggest obstacles you'll face with data quality amelioration are emotional.

Just remember: XML is not a format. It is a format format, akin to a cookie cutter. Cookie cutters usually don't taste very good

"Actually, that statement is true when the data model agreed upon is XML, because once that's done, the data processing is very simple."

Data models are independent of their representation. When...

"This article is primarily complaining about the hardness of certain problems and then castigating XML for not magically solving them."

That was precisely the point of the article. XML is (often)...