Re: You have my sympathies

You must be a programmer.

No. No way. No way in hell.

You may as well say... "ADD MORE WORK AND INTEGRATE RISK INTO YOUR APPLICATIONS." On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, James Moore wrote:

> "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote in message
> news:<38ca3168.3632572_at_news-server>...
> > Not a PK, a FK or a
> > stored procedure or trigger in sight...
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> To me, the use of triggers and stored procedures is something to be avoided,
> not sought out. As much as possible should be done by the application. The
> big downside of things like stored procedures and triggers is that they're
> written in some non-standard extension to SQL. There's no standard way to
> write database code inside databases; Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft and the
> others all have their own way of doing things. Instead of using these, do
> the work in your application instead. People maintaining the code are going
> to be looking at the app anyway, and the more of it that's in one place and
> in a standard language (C++, Perl, whatever) the better. There may be times
> when you can't avoid using some extensions, but think long and hard before
> you do.
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> - James Moore
> james_at_MP3.com
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Received on Tue Mar 14 2000 - 10:11:19 CST