Call me a dinosaur but I would never do this.
You are locked in to your database vendor for life.
Maintenance is a nightmare.
How do you document such a system, knowing that documentation is never up to date? At least with code you can find out what is going on. With a system where the business logic is buried in the database you wind up delving through triggers and stored procedures and constraints with few if any obvious connections between them.
Not to mention that 'database' programmers will probably cost significantly more than a CF programmer.
You asked for thoughts. These are mine. Nobody has to agree with them...
Brett B)
Ryan Sabir wrote:
Hey all,
Been doing some pretty intense study of MS-SQL server lately and a few questions came up...
Basically, a lot of software developers say to put all your business logic into the database, and to support it by constraints at the database level, instead of at the application (i.e. CF) level. This means things like using triggers to update multiple rows in the database, and having checks on the validity of foreign keys etc...
The more I look at this, the more they seem to be saying to build your entire application on the database server.... so my question is how should Cold Fusion fit into this?
With the XML capabilities of SQL Server 2000, it would be possible to write an entire application in the database, and link stylesheets to the XML output, completely bypassing CF. Has anyone tried anything like this?
I imagine this is not a viable method to build a serious application, I guess because SQL and VB / C# are more cumbersome to work with than CF.. but then where do you draw the line? How do you decide that a particular piece of business logic is more suited to be run at the database level, or at the application level?
Any thoughts?
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