Re: Mixing OO and DB

Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com> wrote:

[snip]

>Not if they are explanatory. Employee.find("Bob") is a lot easier to
>understand than Select * from Employee_Table where Name = 'Bob'; In
>any case, once you have the method, you can polymorphically replace it
>with test methods etc.

     Bah! It is just syntactic sugar and not very sweet at that.

     Now try finding Bob who works in Accounting:
          select * from employee_table
          where name='Bob' and dept='Accounting';

     Your go.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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