Amen Rob. T-SQL bites. So I write CLR Sprocs or do the heavy lifting in C# and then call very minimal Sprocs.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Rob Sobers <rsob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to heartily disagree that U2 has a sophisticated business rules > engine. U2 Basic is such a limited language. It barely has functions, and > you have to home brew almost everything. > > Microsoft's T-SQL stored procedures are just as horrible to write as U2 > Basic programs. As Jeff Atwood put it -- "Stored procedures should be > considered database assembly language." [1] Why do you think Microsoft now > allows you to call CLR code from stored procedures? Because it's so much > more efficient to work with the data (i.e., enforce the business rules) in a > modern language like C# that has *actual libraries* for doing useful things. > > I agree that business rules shouldn't be on the client -- but who says they > have to be in the database? Look at the ever-so-popular MVC architecture. > The models (i.e., the code that works with the database and enforces all of > the business rules) are isolated from the views (i.e., the > client/presentation code) entirely. > > -Rob > > [1]: > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/who-needs-stored-procedures-anyways.html > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kevin King <precisonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 for what David said. Yes, there's the "limitation" that BASIC is the >> only native supported language (not factoring external connectors), but as >> a >> language native to the environment, this BASIC is really pretty rich by >> comparison to the stored procedure languages of other DBs. >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
