Don Verhagen wrote > I have accepted an Application Development management > position with a company here in the Philadelphia area. > However, they are not a U2 shop. I view this > opportunity as a chance to build my skills in and > around the .NET platform and evaluate the use MSSQL in > a true business application that I myself have built > on a U2 platform in a previous time. > > While this doesn't exclusively rule out U2 in the > future, for now, I'll be in SQL-land.
Don - good luck to you. I expect you will find a couple clear differences and it would be nice if you could come back and share the experience with us after you've been at it a while: In the rest of the world it's much easier to simply plug a relational database into a project and make use of it through code. Tables as easily visible in trees in popular IDEs. Schemas easily become classes, and stored procedures become methods in a manner which is very elegant and compelling. I've tried to introduce MV developers to this luxury but so far there has been little interest: nospamNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2008/11/mvcodegen2.html Yes, it's easy to get access to those relational table features but actually defining them on the front-end and maintaining them can be a pain. For data there is usually a need to normalize data, which is a constant bump in the road for those of us who enjoy multivalues and delimited fields. Of course data typing is an ongoing concern but personally I find strong data types to be helpful. And stored procedures can be a real pain. With SQL Server you at least now have the option to define SProcs with "real" code rather than as a stream of queries. A common code language is nice but the equivalent structure for us would be to write entire applications with code in data dictionaries or executed as triggers. So the code itself is better to work with but the location and flow of code is very different than our MV experience. I think you'll find that working in a non-MV shop you'll find a lot of things easier and less thinking from "inside the box" - but you'll probably also find yourself longing for those other things that you know are easier in MV. :) Best wishes, Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
