> Don't forget you can also put complicated and important > tables in memory > on middle tiers this allows you to scale to many users and > makes the DB > performance irrelevant. These middle tiers also allows your > OO design > to capture business logic that requires sorting , joins , groupings , > exclusions etc and allows you to have much simpler SQL . ( ie just > simple selects and updates). In this case your SQL grammar > is so simple > it will be DB independent.
Sure, but you could do all of this without O/R mapping frameworks. My question was really meant to target discussion about the possible downsides of O/R mappers. :) -Brock =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor� http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: Essential .NET: building applications and components with CSharp August 30 - September 3, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/edotnet View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
