By: Oracle Musings » The Value of Information
[...] has been an interesting and somewhat heated discussion going on about a recent blog post by Dominic Brooks and referenced by Doug Burns about the relative value of data vs. applications....
View ArticleBy: chet
<a href="http://www.oraclenerd.com/2008/03/use-oracle-database-dammit.html" rel="nofollow">I'm getting angry too!</a>
View ArticleBy: robert engels
You people miss the point completely. As a person who writes n-tier code that is database agnostic (but comes from a group-up database background), the biggest problem is that every database stored...
View ArticleBy: robert engels
To clarify, without being able to support different databases easily, you end up with vendor lock-in, driving up the prices. Our company wrote our original applications using Oracle centric code (lots...
View ArticleBy: dombrooks
Thanks for your comments, Robert. Not sure who you mean by “you people”. I for one have years of development experience in all tiers of n-tier applications, including solutions using ORM. But for all...
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Regarding your second comment, which I got after my response to your first, I reiterate that I agree with you 100%.
View ArticleBy: Log Buffer #90: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
[...] OraStory appears a very-commented post by Dominic Brooks, tantalizingly called, The dea(r)th of Oracle RDBMS and contracting?. From the piece: “I feel like the war has been lost and there are...
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@robert Am I one of “you people?” I was not talking about database agnostic solutions. Of course you don’t want to rewrite in PL/SQL, T-SQL or vice versa. I thought that went without saying. My main...
View ArticleBy: Sheeri
dom said: For single-vendor-database solutions, I see ORM as the first port of call for people who can’t be bothered with the database. And I completely agree. What I take issue with is the fact that...
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Thanks for your comments, Sheeri. I agree -fixing poorly written queries and dismally designed schemas in Oracle is how I earn my living. From what I’ve seen, I’m not sure the barrier is any higher for...
View ArticleBy: The DBA is dead | EvDBT
[…] on both email lists was exemplified by a blog post in March 2008 by Dom Brooks entitled “The dea(r)th of Oracle RDBMS and contracting?” He commented that the tide of history had finally turned...
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