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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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GeneralRelational database reinvented as a flat file... Pin
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GeneralWhy stick to just one database? Pin
johnsyd19-Jun-13 17:52
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I work for a large company which has an odd habit of splitting off logically related tables into separate databases. So instead of one database ABC, you have databases ABC_CLIENT, ABC_PORTFOLIO, ABC_PRICING, etc. To join client data to their own portfolio data, you need to go cross database and to include pricing data means yet another cross database connection.

A friend who works for another large company in the same industry says that his company thinks this is "best practice". No one I've talked to thinks this is a good idea, let alone "best practice". What do you think?
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