Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

"Tony" <andrewst_at_onetel.net.uk> wrote in message news:c0e3f26e.0409030415.7c84354e_at_posting.google.com...

> For an IDS advodate (like me), the DBMS is the "master" and the
> application is the "slave", merely there to present a friendly user
> interface; for an EDS advodate the application is the "master", and
> the DBMS is merely there to "persist" whatever the application chooses
> to store ("CRUD services" is the chilling term that comes to mind).
>
> Do you agree, or is this DBMS v. application divide orthogonal to the
> IDS/EDS divide? I don't want to drag this thread down the wrong road.

I tend to agree with you. There are very much the same phenomenon. I do see the application vs. the database
as more of a symptom than the underlying cause, but I'm not sure of this. In any event, your response thus far is in keeping with the intent of the thread.

In my experience, many of the people who think the application ought to rule are programmers, and many of the people who think the data ought to rule are DBAs or application managers on production machines. What I don't know is which comes first: the choice of career paths, or the attitude about which ought to rule.

BTW, you know it's really a "production machine" when...

On the one hand, it doesn't have any compilers installed. On the other hand, if it fails during the weekend, pagers start to go off. Received on Fri Sep 03 2004 - 16:19:37 CEST