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Re: PHP is the scourge
From:
Dave Rolsky
Date:
December 8, 2004 08:40
Subject:
Re: PHP is the scourge
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.61.0412081039090.339@urth.org
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:13 -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>> I've never written an app for a client that started on one backend and
>> moved to another.
>
> I have. I helped move an app from MySQL to Oracle once. It took a lot
> of work to get rid of mysql-isms, but the DBI code itself hardly changed
> at all. I would agree with the earlier poster that the level of
> abstraction DBI provides is really helpful when this sort of thing comes
> along. I suspect Pear::DB is fine for this too.
I think the consistency of DB is helpful even if you never move an app
from one DBMS to another. Chances are you'll still end up using more than
one in a career, and being able to connect and send queries with the same
API is great. What I don't think is attempting to mask _all_ the
differences (particularly in SQL itself) between various DBMS backends.
-dave
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