On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:54:32AM +0000, Nial wrote:
It would be better if they didn't rely on implementation specific features of SQL and they adhered to strictly using a 3-tiered approach with a reasonably simple 2nd tier so that any SQL-compliant DB can be used, either open source or commercial.
The fact that these people have chosen not to do so, indicates to me that they have little clue as to how to design a RDBMS or more likely
As if a further clue was needed, the previously mentioned data duplication implies much the same thing.
they've decided to say `to hell with it' & use implementation specifics in order to speed development ie. bodge it. Or yet another
Or possibly even copy a bodge from something else and move to expontial bodging.
possibility is that they have done it right but haven't gone the last mile in order to allow it to work with other databases.
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