http://manniwood.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/the-rdbms-as-final-arbiter-of-your-data-model/ Builder of Database-Backed Web Sites Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://manniwood.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/the-rdbms-as-final-arbiter-of-your-data-model/#comment-772 Brandon Bloom Nails it on ORM; and ORM’s Definition Has Grown « Manni Wood Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:14:12 +0000 http://manniwood.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-772 [...] Bloom’s article is well worth reading. It treads over ground I’ve covered in my own blog, and I’m not surprised any time somebody discovers that “the database itself should hold the authoritative schema, not a class declaration in the code.” I agree. [...] [...] Bloom’s article is well worth reading. It treads over ground I’ve covered in my own blog, and I’m not surprised any time somebody discovers that “the database itself should hold the authoritative schema, not a class declaration in the code.” I agree. [...]

]]> http://manniwood.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/the-rdbms-as-final-arbiter-of-your-data-model/#comment-738 When Was the Last Time You Switched RDBMSs? » Relationland Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:15:51 +0000 http://manniwood.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-738 [...] been pointed out by many people, including this humble blogger, that writing portable SQL, or worse, using an ORM to make it easy to switch RDBMSs, is about as [...] [...] been pointed out by many people, including this humble blogger, that writing portable SQL, or worse, using an ORM to make it easy to switch RDBMSs, is about as [...]

]]> http://manniwood.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/the-rdbms-as-final-arbiter-of-your-data-model/#comment-708 Polyglot Programming Eases Context Switching « Manni Wood Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:18:12 +0000 http://manniwood.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-708 [...] ORM comes from my copy of The Definitive Guide to Django, that I quoted in my earlier blog entry on The RDBMS as Final Arbiter of Your Data Model. It says in chapter 5, page 66, that Writing Python is fun, and keeping everything in Python [...] [...] ORM comes from my copy of The Definitive Guide to Django, that I quoted in my earlier blog entry on The RDBMS as Final Arbiter of Your Data Model. It says in chapter 5, page 66, that Writing Python is fun, and keeping everything in Python [...]

]]> http://manniwood.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/the-rdbms-as-final-arbiter-of-your-data-model/#comment-703 Has It All Been Said by Others? « Manni Wood Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:31:08 +0000 http://manniwood.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-703 [...] Database Abstraction Layers Must Die!, where he makes a criticism very similar to one I made in The RDBMS as the Final Arbiter of Your Data Model, only much more succinctly: [Abstracting away your RDBMS so that you can switch vendors is] no [...] [...] Database Abstraction Layers Must Die!, where he makes a criticism very similar to one I made in The RDBMS as the Final Arbiter of Your Data Model, only much more succinctly: [Abstracting away your RDBMS so that you can switch vendors is] no [...]

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