Re: Xquery might have some things right

"Corey Brown" <corey_at_spectrumsoftware.net> wrote in message news:V5m2c.66912$Tn.41083_at_bignews5.bellsouth.net...

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>     Allowing clients to directly query the server via SQL makes your design

>     too fragile for real world application. Server side schema or application

>     changes will immediately break every client in your system. Your solution

>     requires that clients have intimate knowledge of the servers table structures

>     in order to properly formulate a "query" that would allow the client to pull


>     the information that they're interested in.



I don't buy it. Your communication protocol has a schema, too. Unless
client and server agree on a common schema, nothing works. No matter
what the architecture, unilateral schema changes break everything. This
is not something specific to RDBMSs; it's fundamental to the nature
of distributed computing.

Marshall Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 17:54:32 CET