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From: "Aloha Kakuikanu" <aloha.kakuikanu@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
Subject: Re: Databases as objects
Date: 28 Dec 2006 14:54:52 -0800
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kvnkrkptrck@gmail.com wrote:
> Perhaps the following anecdote will shed some light on the vantage
> point from which many of your responses are coming.
> ...
> The two solutions exemplify the difference made by viewing an
> application's requirements in a process-oriented light instead of a
> data-oriented light.  If you have any sense that the two approaches are
> comparable and ought to be evaluated against one another in terms of
> pros-cons (e.g. the pure SQL approach runs faster but is in some sense
> inferior due to lack of code reuse), then I can see how you'd interpret
> as "rude" the ease and cavalierness with which certain cdt posters
> dismiss ignorant proposals to treat databases as objects.

This is a recurring theme on thedailywtf.com. Recent example

    Set rsStock = objConn.Execute("SELECT * FROM [Inventory]")
    While Not rsStock.EOF
      If rsStock("ItemId") = intItemId Then
        Call SendItemToTransmitter(rsStock)
      End If
      rsStock.MoveNext
    Wend

This begs the question what kind of questions application programmers
are asked at the interviews these days. I bet explaining what the
following line of code means

Inventory |><| `ItemId=value`

is not among them.