Yeah, true enough for applications...of course. The question (I thought) was about the many collections of code snippits out there, which people have written with one db or another in mind. Very, very easy to adapt those to whatever database manager/server you are using - maybe I misunderstood.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:57 PM >To: Aron Pilhofer >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] databases for linux > > >�Aron Pilhofer� sagte am 2002-02-20 um 12:19:56 -0500 : >> Just FYI, (almost) any script written in PHP for mysql can be >adapted quite >> easily for any RDBM, including Postgres. That's one of the really nice >> things about PHP, IMHO. > >Well, in *theory*, you're right. But this holds only so long true, as >you write "pure" SQL and don't use any special RDBMS dependent >optimizations. So, while you can very easily switch the backend, you >really have to take a lot of precautions to ensure that the application >still works after the switch. > >And while I also very much love PHP (and despise Perl for web >development), it's also very easy to switch the DB backend in Perl, >thanks to the nice DBI package. > >Alexander Skwar >-- >How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) >Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > iso-top.de - Die g�nstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen > Uptime: 7 days 13 hours 24 minutes > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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