Re: PL/SQL or SQL in the middle tier?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:25:54 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 20, 11:10 am, The House Dawg <mhous..._at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I work for a Fortune 50 company and we currently have millions of PL/
> SQL code in production. Recently, there has been an initiative
> launched by our DBA's to have software engineers move the PL/SQL out
> of the database and move it into the middle tier.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone? I realize that SOX could be playing a
> part in this because it's difficult to debug a production issue when
> developers must be granted temporary execute privilege on the various
> stored procedures and stored functions to debug the issue.
>
> I can think of many reasons *NOT* to do this.
>
> TIA for any and all feedback.
>
> Matt
Oops, I left out the proposed refactoring - the software engineers would translate the PL/SQL into SQL that would be embedded into our .Net (C#) middle tier. The database layer would just be a set of tables that the middle tier would manipulate with SQL. Received on Wed Feb 20 2008 - 15:25:54 CST