Re: OOP - a question about database access

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> might (or might not) have written this on (or about) Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:07:48 -0500, :

>"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
>news:e4330f45.0311070504.e6aebd_at_posting.google.com...
>> "Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)" <u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b_at_objectmentor.com> wrote in
>message news:<ig2lqvsfbjjhcniov8lskbdpogkd2oagvb_at_4ax.com>...
>>
>> > >Objects like Employee, Customer, etc are completely unnecessary
>> > >because that entities are already managed by the DBMS. You only need
>> > >to map the database tables to visual controls like grids, edits, etc.
>> >
>> > This might be true if the database application does absolutely not
>> > processing of the data. If there are no business rules, and the
>> > system does nothing more than add, display, modify, and delete
>> > records, then having entity objects may not be very useful. On the
>> > other hand, as soon as you add any business rules, such as field
>> > validation, or summary reporting, etc. you need a way to separate
>> > those rules from the database. That's one very useful application for
>> > OO.
>>
>> What a pearl!
>>
>> Sorry for the crossposting again, but I find things like this
>> interesting in order to understand the current state of the IT
>> industry.
>>
>> If recognized OO writers show this "understanding" of the data
>> management issues, imagine the rest.
>
>Yep, it's widespread and piled high.

That's "Piled Higher and Deeper" i.e. PHD.

Anyway I now see the reason for all this rude angst. These articles are cross posted to "databases.theory". No wonder!

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