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Re: Martin Fowler on Schemaless Data Structures

• From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>
• To: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron.62@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:48:00 +0100

My guess is that Martin's problem is that the agile developers want to
be able to change the code at any time, regardless of what that does
to any XML structure, just as long as the code itself passes any unit
tests. In this sense the relevant unit tests are the schema. It looks
to me like this presentation is an attempt to undo the wrongs, while
trying to be diplomatic with both camps (one camp being agile
developers and the other being data purists?).
----
Stephen D Green


On 9 April 2015 at 07:50, Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron.62@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there such a thing as "schemaless" data?
> Surely its a case of either an explicit or implicit schema/data-model,
> every piece of data has a name and a type.
> Schemaless data-bases is another thing.
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:
>> I tend to read this as continuing evidence that people who start from
>> schemas can't imagine leaving that lifejacket/straitjacket behind, but the
>> storytelling is interesting and this may be useful for many of you in
>> other ways.
>>
>> <http://martinfowler.com/articles/schemaless/>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>>
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• References:
  • Martin Fowler on Schemaless Data Structures
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: Martin Fowler on Schemaless Data Structures
    • From: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron.62@gmail.com>