Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!transit4.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:49:23 +0200 From: Jurgen Haan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming Subject: Re: Code in the database or middle tier (the CLR controversy) References: <1117621720.962502.258120@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <5lps9190n65mc59r1b7dn74luur3dj18hq@4ax.com> <1117682093.775003@yasure> <1117720147.568210@yasure> <1117725853.479462@yasure> <1117748627.715470@yasure> <1117806959.589791@yasure> <1117810182.303804@yasure> <3gbaokFbaepmU1@individual.net> <1117825560.307675@yasure> In-Reply-To: <1117825560.307675@yasure> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 Message-ID: <42a3ffca$0$43238$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.125.147 X-Trace: 1118044106 news.xs4all.nl 43238 [::ffff:80.126.125.147]:57941 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.ibm-db2:88370 comp.databases.oracle.tools:68647 comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:105263 microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming:483232 DA Morgan wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: >> Are programmers using PL/SQL on the app side any smarter w.r.t. >> relational SQL than those using VB? Do they write better SQL because >> they use PL/SQL? > > > Yes. Yes. Yes. > LOL I'm using SQL in PERL, am I a bad person now? I've used PL/SQL client side, and I found it to be tough, I was much more busy with the language elements than creating fast, optimized SQL. Perl is a really sloppy (not inefficient though) language, you don't have to think (about the language) while coding, put some nice SQL in it though. -R-