What do you mean by standalone application? If your application will only have one thread/process (however you call it), it might be up to you. But from the time you have at least 2 sessions connected to the DB at the same time, the DB will be able to do a lot of things quite better than the application. Why? it's exactly built to do these things (ACID) my .02€ Martin On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 14:51, RP Khare <passionate_programmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > I read Tom Kyte's "Effective Oracle by Design". There he says to write most > of the code in the DB itself to reduce application code. It is good in a > distributed environment, but is it advantageous in an standalone application > also? > > My app. is in .NET. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l