Chris > Um, I never said I was a DBA or looking to work as a DBA. I've never > been discounted from a position as a developer because I didn't know > what a view was or how to use it. And on top of it, you continue to > be incredibly rude towards me. Your little joke about exposure to the > sun is a perfect example of that. > > Do all DBA's have this type of attitude towards developers? Wow. > Oddly enough, the other DBA that I have worked with displayed the same > level of disdain for developers and shock that not everyone understood > database systems the way he did. He wasn't even that good at his job > either. > I am sorry if my tone was rude, I was simply trying to say that to never had the opportunity to ever create and/or use a view, in 9 years of experience , (or 20, for that matter), is not good enough of a reason to discard their use.
I am a programmer, and never had a position as a DBA. It might surprises you, but it's true. I develop client applications, or, more exactly, help other programmers (all my clients are programmers) to develop or improve their applications. And, very, very often, my job is to open their eyes on SQL, as they upgrade their applications from Sequential ISAM files to SQL. Problem is, generally speaking, they continue to program with the same ISAM mindset, which is far from optimal. As an example, I have recently wrote ONE stored procedure, replacing 3 "process", with the result to go from about 1 hour of heavy processing on their machine, to about 0.30 second on the Postgresql server. ( Not comparing with MySQL, as before version 5, this was impossible in MySQL). So, I am a programmer, like you. I have been developing applications (Desktop and Lan) for businesses of all sizes, and now my experience allow me to work in the background, for other programmers. I am mostly a beginner in PHP, and have a lot too learn in that field, which I admit very easily. But I am learning. And if I manage to learn to the point where I would be able to help modify Cake core classes, I will be very happy to do so. But for now, I was mostly pointing out that, discarding the ability to use back end views was a disturbing choice for me. Bernard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
