Re: Database Server Vs. Application Servers - Processing Location

Playing "straight man" for Tom Kyte? ;-)

Locate yourself a copy of his "Expert One-On-One Oracle". The very first chapter, he lays out his arguments that pretty much agree with yours.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:54:32 -0500, "Burton Peltier" <burttemp1REMOVE_THIS_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Just wondering what others opinions are on this subject...
>
>Within our company, there are some who think in-house developed applications
>should be architectured such that there is no dependence on the underlying
>database server software - the database server should only do CRUD
>(create,read,update,delete) processing.
>
>This might at first seem sensible to some, I think there are way too many
>"gray areas" to say the above should be a "standard" that must be adhered to
>or have permission to do differently. I am guessing this is some people's
>intent.
>
>Some people spend way too much effort trying to not "tie" themselves to 1
>database vendor and don't take advantage of features and functionality (in
>Oracle for our company), at a significant loss either by lost functionality
>or performance or "writing their own way". Or, they do things like put hints
>in the SQL to tune and are "tied" anyway.
>
>Note: I can see where a software vendor should/has to try and work this way.
>But, this does not seem to make sense for a commercial company like ours.
Received on Thu Aug 21 2003 - 08:12:16 CDT