OK, my spelling has never been that goode.
But how about session specific field encryption?
Carlos?
On Sunday, August 31, 2014, Tom Coleman <tcole...@autowares.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:39 AM, James Starkey wrote:
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> This calls into question whether Firebird exists to serve the interests
> of its users or just for the amusement of certain dilantants.
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> Jim's often prescient comments sent me to the dictionary to look this one
> up.
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> Per Webster:
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> dil·et·tante *noun* \ˈdi-lə-ˌtänt, -ˌtant; ˌdi-lə-ˈ\
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> : a person whose interest in an art or in an area of knowledge is not very
> deep or serious
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> Apparently Jim used the term in reference to Firebird users. Firebird
> developers certainly have deep knowledge of technology, but perhaps too
> deep.
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> From my perspective, the entire subject of protecting source code in
> procedures is completely irrelevant.
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> Our Oracle DBA throws a fit every time I suggest that some method run in
> the database as a stored procedure. "The database is not designed for
> that!", he screams.
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> He is a database purist. His focus is optimizing the delivery of
> relational data. To him, having the database engine "wasting cycles"
> running code that belongs in the application is criminal. He feels almost
> as strongly about using alphanumeric primary keys.
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> The current revolution in web application development is moving logic out
> of the database and out of the presentation layer and into services. It
> can be summed up as: javascript calling services.
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> I no longer write applications that do not use some form of ORM
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping>. The last time
> I tried to find a JPA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Persistence_API>
> solution
> that worked with Firebird I was disappointed.
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> Firebird needs to catch up. Preserve whatever functionality exists now in
> FB3 for the benefit of current users and move on.
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Jim Starkey
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