Re: Can a procedure contain only a SELECT statement?
From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:08:54 +0100
Message-ID: <80krr7F4njU1_at_mid.individual.net>
On 03/19/2010 08:39 PM, Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:26:44 -0400, Thomas Gagne
> <TandGandGAGNE_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mickeysoft has never understood the Procedure concept, and ignored the
> formal defintiion and abused it to return a result set.
> It seems like you belong to the class of sqlserver 'developers' which
> is so narrow-minded they automatically reject everything done
> differently by Oracle and start bashing Oracle for it.
> Luckily sqlserver is incapable of being an enterprise class product,
> just because of its poor architecture and vendor lock-in, so your
> 'objections' are futile.
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:08:54 +0100
Message-ID: <80krr7F4njU1_at_mid.individual.net>
On 03/19/2010 08:39 PM, Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:26:44 -0400, Thomas Gagne
> <TandGandGAGNE_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My background is Sybase & SqlServer. On both, due I'm sure to a common >> heritage, a stored procedure is capable of being as simple or complex as >> the programmer wants. Sometimes, all that is needed is a select >> statement. Sometimes even simple projections may require multiple steps >> to prepare the last SELECT. Additionally, stored procedures are capable >> of returning multiple result sets. I assumed, incorrectly, such a thing >> was not so complicated that it couldn't be easily done inside Oracl
>
> Mickeysoft has never understood the Procedure concept, and ignored the
> formal defintiion and abused it to return a result set.
> It seems like you belong to the class of sqlserver 'developers' which
> is so narrow-minded they automatically reject everything done
> differently by Oracle and start bashing Oracle for it.
> Luckily sqlserver is incapable of being an enterprise class product,
> just because of its poor architecture and vendor lock-in, so your
> 'objections' are futile.
I would not be too sure of that. SQL Sever isn't as bad as people are trying to make it look - and it's gaining ground, especially in the area of dealing with larger data sets. Maybe it's not as "enterprise class" as Oracle is (or is claimed to be) but the management tools with good graphical user interface were there before Oracle had Grid Control. Yes, I know - real DBA's use command line, but there are situations where a graphical visualization can greatly help.
Cheers
robert
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