Re: Standards/reasonable programming practices

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > rferdy@kuwait.net (Rudy Fernandes) wrote: > > :In article <338f1a67.41855084@gate.idg.no>, > : Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: > : > :<lots of sensible stuff snipped> > : > :>My methods might be radical > : > :Radical? More like the only way to big systems. Extremely useful! > > The radical parts where meant only to be that I do not test and > develop directly on a database with live mission critical data. > The other parts are probably reasonably elementary. I think you mean the radical part is that you did test on a db with live data (or did I misread the previous post). I am often tempted to do the same and am safe 90% of the time....It's that other 10% that will kill you. I'd recommend not even trusting yourself, without at least a cursory test on a test system. > > Nils.Myklebust@idg.no > NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway > My opinions are those of my company > The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org