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Is it normal to design a database without writing an analysts first but basing it on the design? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by nitefox@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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The other day I asked for an analysis or at least an UML diagram since we are having quite some troubles and my boss looked disgusted at me for asking such a question. I’m not a professional backend developer, so I don’t know how it works professionally

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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there's context missing from that story. Diagrams do not trigger disgust. At best, making superfluous and time-wasting demands in the context of trivial tasks that add nothing of value and achieve nothing but wasting time and adding overhead can often lead managers to frown upon them.

[–] nitefox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The DB is already made, but they had to change it cause they didn't plan a huge portion of its logic beforehand even though they knew about it: this resulted in major changes across the whole schema

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Blobs of json are your friend.