I haven't worked with "the Germans", but have been with several companies
who's developers thought this way. Also now working with a company that
starts with an S and rhymes with evil and they do nearly the same thing.
Jim
"Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
news:3cd133f4$0$15475$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <V5Tz8.87695$CH.12075_at_rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>, you said
> (and I quote):
> > To a degree yes, but I have been places where they did the following
because
> > not all databases did it the same:
> > No Referential integrity
> > no triggers
> > No function based indexes
> > No sequences or auto generated primary keys
> > No stored procedures
> > All text fields that needed to be very large (eg a LOB) were put into a
> > table where the rows were split up in 2K chunks and reassembled for each
> > query to that.
> > No vendor specific builtins (eg functions like nvl or cast) which means
> > almost no functions
> > No joins
> >
>
>
> Why would anyone in their right mind use a database back end and not use
> any of the above is beyond the reach of mere mortals. And quite within
> the grasp of some Germans...
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 09:52:35 CDT
