Re: "Transactions are bad, real bad"

From: Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:19:37 -0700
Message-ID: <b9e38p$i9a88$1@ID-152540.news.dfncis.de>

Paul Vernon wrote:
> "Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message
> news:Xns9373EB0EF7592pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233...
> [snip]
>

>>My school of thought is that a DBMS shouldn't be the end-all
>>solution.

>
>
> I would be genuinely interested in knowing why you think that. Do you have any
> deep reasons? Maybe you just want to protect the job creation scheme that is
> the role of 'Applications Programmer' ????
>

I'll give you another reason: intractability. Some problems are unsolvable in the database, or at least in the database as we understand databases now.

Unless you want the database language to have the full programming power *and* expressivity as a full blown language - say LISP, and massage the whole echillada in the DBMS, which would be truely horrible.

Is this good enough ?

> Regards
> Paul Vernon
> Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services
>
>

Best regards,
Costin Cozianu Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 12:19:37 CDT

Re: "Transactions are bad, real bad" - discuss