Re: Do you use PL/SQL

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:02:44 +0200
Message-ID: <f33kbk$g8v$1@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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hasta_l3_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> On 24 mai, 01:53, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> zigzag..._at_yahoo.com wrote:
>>> In practice,you cannot make your application as database independent
>>> by writing lots of stored procedures inPL/SQL. That's the reason
>>> people avoid PL/SQL because it is a proprietary Language of Oracle.
>> Sorry but that's nonsense.You can doit and the better companies with
>> the better products do doit.

>
> Daniel, I have to say with Zizag that having to maintain
> synchronized a sizeable code base of stored procedures
> in three or four dialects is for me a *very* frightening
> perspective.

Well - that's how serious businesses do it. And they have their own database specialists to write the code.

>
> I suspect that only few companies - with lots of
> resources and very strong processes - will go that
> route

Correct - I actually know of none. It's always the fast buck that wins.

> Would you have examples of actual products that
> achieve database independance with SPs ?
>
> Have a nice day (sunny over here, yepee :-)
>
> --- Raoul
>
>

-- Regards, Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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