Re: Universal database interface?

On 4/12/05, Jonathan Gennick <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Here's an 
interesting proposition:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub 
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> /a/network/2005/04/11/rsdp.html
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Some initial thoughts.

He addresses many of the issues in the article, and then
attempts to rationalize them:

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"Many developers are happy to trade runtime performance for cross-platform 
portability."

Maybe the developers are happy, because performance is the DBA's problem, 
right?
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"One of the reviewers pointed out that XML-RPC is not a good way to deliver 
BLOBs. I was not thinking of BLOBs when I wrote this article (my habit has 
always been to use databases to point to other resources, and to store large 
files somewhere else). However, it will be possible to send them using 
Base64 encoding. It's not very efficient, but it will work. If you need to 
support BLOBs, RSDP may not be a very good way to do this."
 
He may favor the practice of retrieving files from the filesystem, but it 
seems
to me he is ignoring that this is much like his complaint with databases 
requiring
different access methods. 
 
Which OS? Which file system?
 
Good practice would dictate putting these in the database.
 
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 All the data is transported via xml. Better put in those better faster 
NIC's.

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I can understand his pain in this matter, but I'm not sure this is the right 

way to go about mitigating it. No, I don't have a better idea. :)

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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