RE: Database programming standards

  • From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:30:06 -0500

Deen
   Usually the DBA doesn't get a chance to tell the development staff where
they should put their business logic ;-)
   This is normally the province of the architect.

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Deen Dayal
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:10 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Database programming standards


From what I gathered on this thread so far

I want to summarize with following

1) Java code should always use bind variables
2) Any open cursors/connection should be closed/released when the work is
finished and when no longer required
3) Keep the Business logic in the database using stored procs and packs
where ever possible to reduce network traffic and to ensure business rules
are always enforced.
   
I want to know from all of you out there: what are the reasons/arguments
developers have against #3 

In other words are there any genuine practical reasons except what has been
mentioned by Mladen about making the app transparent of the RDBMS (which by
the way is a very good point, I will bring it up with my management)

Can any body add anything else to the list above?

The application we are about venture on is going to serve a lot of users, at
the peak close to 30K and there are going to be a lot of complex business
rules and my guess about the size of the DB should be around 500GB

Thanks to all for your help
Deen


-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Daniel Fink
Sent: Friday, 4 June 2004 1:54 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Database programming standards

Gosh, this sounds like a rather heated discussion I had with an expert in
the past. His position was that the database was for storing data...only for
storing data. No RI, no check constraints, no stored procs, no triggers. His
argument was that anything related to business rules belonged in the
application layer. 

Other bits stripped...


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