A bit of terminology that gets beaten to death is that of the “physical” database.  I would think most every DBA uses this term (I do), but…to mean what?  I think there are two common utilizations: The layer of tables, constraints, indexes, etc used to store data The actual on-disk structures. Frankly, until 3 years ago, I ...

Okay, so on the first look this sounds like the most boring Japanese action movie ever. Requirements is tearing through the village, and Architecture is in the city.  Developers by the horde are trying to code both of these into oblivion…Maybe not.  Clearly I am talking about something a little more exciting…the battle between the forces ...