I think this is quite true, especially for the contract programmer who works on various sites, for multiple clients, on differing platforms.
However, for those who are part or, for example, a particular Education or Government entity with a single, standard web infrastructure platform, I think there can be great benefit in learning the procedural language of the DB in question. In my case I have a working knowledge of PL/SQL and I'm always trying to improve it; the O'Reilly book on the subject was a good investment. I also made an effort to learn some of the particular things about Oracle that make it special (e.g. the CONNECT BY clause for hierarchical queries and Oracle Text for full-text searches). Of course, I don't expect any other given CF developer, including those in the top N, to know the first thing about Oracle's SQL extensions or PL/SQL. On 8/27/06, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > > Knowing SQL is a v.important part of the whole package. > > I very much agree. > > > No excuse for not knowing a decent about of T-SQL. > > I very much disagree. First of all, I think that writing anything but the > most trivial stored procedures is something that is generally outside the > scope of the duties of a ColdFusion programmer. Second, why would not knowing > the idiosyncracies of one specific dbms that isn't even multi-platform mean > that somebody is not a good ColdFusion programmer? > > Jochem -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251181 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
