What this talk is about:
How to make life easier for your DBA(s).
How to make life easier for your application developer(s) (and everyone else).
Taking full advantage of your RDBMS.
Quick outline:
How we got here
Where we can go
Applying open source principles to your work
Using functions, views, triggers, rules, domains, and operators
Documentation
What this talk is NOT about:
How to use a RDBMS
How to unravel office politics
How to write SQL
How to win friends and influence people
Object-orientation
The problem, in a nutshell:
Database mostly seen as a support role
Application does all the work
Database is underutilized
Logic and documentation are spread out
The solution, abbreviated
Open source your project
Involve everyone, early and completely
Bind everything close to the data
Use the under-utilized: DBAs, databases, OO concepts
What you will get out of this
Some ideas to apply to your own organization and projects
A better understanding of the abilities of a database
The idea that everything lives close to the data
Different ways to think about your database
