Re: Database events
Re: Database events
- Subject: Re: Database events
- From: Neil Laubenthal <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:18:32 -0500
Oh please. I cannot abide ignorant fanboyism: unless you've also used a decent RDBMS and can tell us at minimum what 'normalization', 'left join', and 'relational integrity' mean, you are utterly unfit to lecturing anyone on the subject.
FMP is the Dunning-Kruger of databases. I was using it in 2000; since then I've also worked with MySQL, Postgres, and SQLServer. I am hardly an expert in relational database design and management, and even I can tell that FMP is a sack of shit compared to the rest of them. FMP's designers wouldn't know Codd from the hole in a ground, and unless it's gained a 'do SQL' command since I last used it then its AppleScript interface is an absolute farce. (Last time I used it was when the section on FMP for the Apress AppleScript book. Without ability to join, AppleScript's 'whose' clauses are useless for anything non-trivial. And scripting FMP's Find forms is beyond hideous.)
Oh please. I cannot abide elitism (grinning/kidding sarcasm intended). FMP is not and doesn’t pretend to be a full strength industrial RDBMS but then for it’s intended market it doesn’t need to be.
I’ve been a computer geek for nigh on 40 years now…and I don’t have any idea what normalization, left join and relational integrity mean in the context of said industrial strength RDBMS.
However; I don’t think that FileMaker is really selling FMP for that purpose…but for home and light to medium office type users. For those it’s just fine. Are there better databases…sure if you’re looking for said industrial RDBMS…but for it’s intended use it’s just fine.
FileMaker could toss it out and start all over with something that’s just a nice GUI on top of Postgres or MySQL or any of probably a dozen other of those types of databases…but look at from their business standpoint. FMP is fine for what it’s intended for and there’s a whole cottage industry of FMP developers that build custom stuff for money on top of FMP. While that cottage industry ins’t FileMaker’s specific concern…do they really want to force all of their developers to start over when for it’s intended purpose it isn’t all that clear that starting over would help things? Sure, the database geek would like it…but the rest of us, maybe not so much.
Besides…I don’t think the poster that said “sad nonsense” was really trying to lecture anybody or displaying any sense of fanboyism…at worst he was pooh poohing the elitist view that only a “real” database was worth putting any effort into.
Could FMP be better? Sure it could but spouting on about fanboyism and not knowing Codd (whatever that is) from a hole in the ground or whatever is just as annoying as said fanboyism is in the first place.
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neil
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