Re: Databases as objects

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Thomas Gagne <tgagne_at_wide-open-west.com> wrote:
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> [snip]
>
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>> At some point, all that expression and composition has an ingress and
>> egress, and what lies between them is a reusable, repeatable code. No
>> one really wants to write all that SQL by hand every time so it's put
>> inside a macro. To increase the macro's value parameters are applied to
>> make it a function. Now we're cooking with fire.
>>
>
> I think you are going in the wrong direction.
>
> All what SQL? The SQL in my app is a very small part of it. The
> presentation code is much, much bigger. It is the presentation code
> that I would like to cut down.
>
In my commercial finance system, 37% of the source code is SQL. 43% is presentation (PHP). When you say your SQL is a small amount, what does that mean? Are able to count it?

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