Re: Oracle is a bigger version of MS Access?

From: <ctcgag_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 04 Oct 2003 19:05:40 GMT
Message-ID: <20031004150540.469$nr@newsreader.com>

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_no-spam.comcast.net> wrote:
> "Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message
> news:1a75df45.0310020430.6339ced4_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote
> >
> > > The only possible argument against such religious drivel might be
> Chapter
> > > 1 of Kyte's expert one-on-one.
> >
> > Good, call. I've just photostated the first few pages and will be
> > handing it out at the next architecture meeting.
> >
> > > But it's an uphill battle precisely because it's religious (pure
> > > belief without, or deliberately ignoring, any visible means of
> > > support).
> >
> > Exactly. Which is why I'm trolling for comments and opinions, backed
> > up personal experience, to also present at the next meeting.
> >
> > One of the problems I face is the perception that I'm an Oracle
> > fanatic saying that as much as possible must be done in the database.
> > It's difficult to change this perception and show that it is a common
> > and the best practise method - and nothing to do with Oracle
> > "fanatacism".
> >
> > So, how do you counter the opinion that Oracle should be a bit bucket
> > without sounding like a fanatic?
> >
> > --
> > Billy

>

> Billy,
> Ouch! Hard to deal with people who are unreasonable. Years ago I worked
> at a company that used a CRM from a company called Onyx. I don't know if
> it is different now, but at that time Onyx only ran on SQLServer. The
> architecture of the application was that ALL business rules etc. were in
> the database. They called stored procedures for everything. The
> internet boom, everything must be a thin client craze came along. They
> fairly quickly turned their CRM into a web based company CRM portal. Gee
> how did they do that? They didn't have to change the back end, just the
> GUI (web server stuff instead of a Visual Basic client server
> application.

So now postulate that instead of calling stored procedures for everything, they called DAO methods for everything. How does this make things different with respect to the web-based change?

Xho

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Received on Sat Oct 04 2003 - 14:05:40 CDT