SCO 507 + MYSQL

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:14:33PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Lerebours, Jose done said:
> > You are missing a key added value to using stored procedures
> > "code reusability".  By having stored procedures, you can have
> 
> This is why I have a nice library of functions I've written in perl.
> Rip-n-plug, mate.  It doesn't have to be server-side, and it's not specific
> to one particular RDBMS--I can use the same logic on all of them because
> it's all coded in one place, in one language.
> 
> I appreciate your point, but I get the same benefit client-side, with the
> exception of having to possibly change multiple clients unless I made a
> module out of my functions.  I don't always do that.  I but it's quite easy
> to replace the functions if necessary.

Actually, *that* is not the benefit of SP, either.

The reason you don't see it mark, is:

> There is no "I" in TEAM.
> This would be the primary reason I've chosen not to join one.

It's *enforcing* a business-level API to the stored data on multiple
programmers, not all of whom you *can* control.

Cheers,
-- jra
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