Re: Database analysis
On 2/7/07, Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> It occurs to me that many of you fine folks might have some
> understandign of this area. What are the sorts of questions one asks
> when looking at existing databases to see what they do and how that
> can help shape a new database of the same type but a different focus?
Susan, without meaning to sound like a smartass, what I generally do
is send that section of the RFP to our senior DBA, with an explanatory
note and a firm deadline for response.
Right. The thing is that I'm not sure I'm conveying this right; I
don't think it really is so much a database question as a library
question. That is, it's not about how the DB is constructed, but about
how the information in it is accessed and used... well, maybe that
*is* a DB question.
The proposal writer can't possibly know every single aspect of a
business or its technological underpinnings, and where specialist
knowledge is required, that's what you gotta go get.
Agreed.
If you don't have the requisite expertise in-house ("didn't want to
pay for a consultant,") that raises a whole host of other interesting
questions, such as why your firm is bidding on the work.
Short answer: I wonder too :)
Longer answer: we are very small and tend to form groups of
specialists around a proposal, with committments to 'come on board'
contingent upon approval.
But having said that, I am talking to the consultant that would be
part of the team later today; I just wanted to see what I could find
on my own first.
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Database analysis: From: Susan Hogarth
Re: Database analysis: From: Barry Campbell
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