Databases and Business Analysts

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ben Brumm (@databasestar) about: a
macintosh with a color monitor, playing games like time crisis, sim
city, on Pentium, pixel perfect vs responsive design, starting
"programming" with Microsoft Frontpage, writing simple programs
with Visual Basic, starting Java in 2001, writing a Java app to
search for file on CDs writing Java CLI with GraalVM, starting with
Oracle Database and SQL Server, starting as a business analyst,
using toad, datagrip, postico, and SQLplus for database
development, using SQL developer and PL/SQL developer, using Visual
Studio Code for database development, skipping business analysts
and talking directly to users, writing code forces you to think
harder, nice Java objects vs. highly normalized database,
denormalizing database for performance, structural changes to
database take too long, using FlywayDB and liquibase for automated
database deployments, when DDLs take too long, dealing with
structural rollbacks in DB and the red gate tools, Oracle Editions
and Flashbacks, increasing PostgreSQL popularity, using PostgreSQL
JSONB functionality as extensions column, using Oracle XStream,
using Change Data Capture (CDC) and Debezium, Ben's blog:
www.databasestar.com and book: Beginning Oracle SQL for Oracle
Database 18c: From Novice to Professional

Ben Brumm on twitter: @databasestar