Recovering interrupter with occasional relapses, lover of spreadsheets, blogger, programmer, adept debugger, conjurer of analogies, and probably other things.
I used to work in insurance, and the very thought of having data integrity enforced at the application layer sends shudders down my spine.
Why? Because what happens if two duplicate emails exist in the users table for the same human being? It creates problems. Which user record gets the bill? Are there two different bills?
I advocate for validations at the layer where if they were missing, they would cause the most mayhem.
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I used to work in insurance, and the very thought of having data integrity enforced at the application layer sends shudders down my spine.
Why? Because what happens if two duplicate emails exist in the
users
table for the same human being? It creates problems. Which user record gets the bill? Are there two different bills?I advocate for validations at the layer where if they were missing, they would cause the most mayhem.