July 24, 2006

Tom Kyte said it more concisely

Mark Whitehorn had a good article on the importance of horses-for-courses context. But Tom Kyte said the same thing more concisely:

I believe strongly – and more strongly every day – that there are only two possible answers to a “first question”. They are:

  1. Why
  2. It Depends

That said, I suspect that I agree with Tom more emphatically than he himself does. ;) At least when it comes to the relative superiority of various data models …

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