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The illusion of DataBase Abstraction Layers or Classes

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…...

April 12, 2005 · 6 min · François Planque

XML vs. Relational Databases

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…...

September 21, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque

Commodity databases getting serious (slowly)

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…...

July 11, 2003 · 2 min · François Planque

Microsoft Data Access Strategies

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…

July 11, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque

Quote of the day - data access

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…

July 11, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque