Serge Rielau wrote:
> The market drives standardization.
> If vendors of do not agree on standards then the market abandons the
> fractured interface. That is exactly what is happening.
> One reason why apps are written in Java and abuse DBMS as mere file
> systems is that vendors have not been able to keep SQL standardized.
> This is not the first time this happens and it won't be the last.
>
> The very fact that deep exploitation of the DBMS is preached as a
> "requirement" drives the app vendors away.
> Why would an app vendor want to be held hostage by any specific database
> vendor just to get a performance improvement that Moore's law will fix
> for them in short time anyway?
> Why would customers put themselves into a position where the vendor can
> dictate the support price upon next renewal because the customers cannot
> threaten to change the supplier and the vendor knows that all to well.
>
> The premise of SQL was and is that it's the DBMS' job to optimize. It is
> not the app developers job to write e.g. EXIST instead of IN to achieve
> performance.
>
> If vendors cannot agree on a procedural language then the customers
> cannot be blamed for refusing or at least minimizing its usage.
>
> Cheers
> Serge
one of the best, and saddest, contributions I've seen here for ages.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 16:22:08 CDT
