"A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin' and moanin' about "kids these days," and how they won't or can't do anything hard any more." So goes the intro to Joel's "The Perils of JavaSchools". Higly relevant and highly recommended, as us…...
Many people think that DB abstraction is cool. I get emails about this topic all the time. People suggesting we add a DB abstraction layer to b2evolution, or offering to do so themselves. So why haven't we added one yet? Well, simply because DB…...
Lately, I've seen quite a few people claiming XML to be the definitive way to store data, because it's supposed to be the most flexible format... Others claim RDBMSes have been providing an efficient solution to data storage for years or decades and…...
(via Cédric) Jim Gray [Links gone]: "Larry Ellison announced that Oracle is now running entirely on Linux. But he didn't say, "Incidentally we're going to run all of Oracle on MySQL on Linux." If you just connected the dots, that would be…...
mySQL has been planing to implement stored procedures and triggers in mySQL 5 for some time now... But lately, it looks like it's just gonna get better than expected... Via Simon Willison (great blog!), from chromatic's wrap-up of OSCON day 3: Brian…...
Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET - All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn…