Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:35 PM usoup

Database normalisation

I was surprised and worried.

Surprised, because my younger sister had just asked me about checking on her database normalisation homework. Apparently her school has taught them database normalisation (which means, her school taught them about relational database concept too, which means her school also taught them about computing, and perhaps a little bit of software development). And she's still 1.5 years away from graduating from her high school!

Worried, because usually her school have about hundreds (and perhaps close to a thousand) students from her batch alone! (It is quite a big school, actually.) Who knows what else they could learn there. SOA? Corporate governance? Web 2.0? And these could be the batch that probably could do my current job by the time they graduate from university (or earlier)!!!! :o (At this time, you should imagine a scene from the Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, where the clones are ready for deployment! Or the robots from i, Robot!)

(Image referenced from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39912000/jpg/_39912096_i_robot_pa.jpg)

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# re: Database normalisation

Friday, February 29, 2008 8:14 AM by cruizer

i don't think anyone should be worried about it, we should all be glad :) imagine if even just ten of these hundreds would be excellent in their craft, that would translate to less bugs and higher quality software in the future :)

# re: Database normalisation

Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:55 AM by usoup

No, I'm not worried about them replacing us. I'm just worried that by that time, my company will have promoted me to be manager of telented people like them (Typically, when we goes up, it's management line... :( ). Tell me, should we even "manage" them? Or should we just let their soul roam freely and let them build the next huge software? :D