Re: standard database programming language

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: 5 Oct 2003 23:41:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1a75df45.0310052241.6dbca282@posting.google.com>

"Matthias Wirtz" <Matthias.Wirtz_at_epost.de> wrote

> are there any efforts to develop a standardized programming language for
> databases?

A stored proc language? No.

> I'm using PL/SQL a lot - it's a strong language. But only usefull for Oracle
> databases. There are other languages for other databases. So for customer
> perspective it would be the best to have one language that can be used with
> all databases. Similar to SQL.

Why? What benefit will there be for the vendor? It will only make it easier for the client to swap their database for another vendor's database.

On the developer side - do you *honestly* believe for a nanosecond that this standard language will be implement equaly by each vendor? That they will actually support the standards of this language without trying to screw each other and screw us in order to tie us down to their version of the language?

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Billy

Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 01:41:40 CDT