On 11/1/05, modmans2ndcoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am new to DB dev work, and I was just curious about Lazy updates. > > It seems that a lot of people are concerned about the number to updates > that are generated using SQLObject.
I'm not sure about *a lot* of people... but there are certainly some. > Lazy updates allow you to not update the db every time you make a > change? Why is that important? How often do you change data after you > update it? Here's an example: foo.bar = "Hello" results in some SQL like: UPDATE Foo SET bar = 'Hello' where id=5 That gets sent on to your database server. Some people are concerned about the amount of traffic to the database server if you end up not committing those changes. Kevin
