Diregard Perl..its dated and pointless. CF will always use and have to
use an ODBC/JDBC combo from anyone who can serve it up...jeez your
missing the point of ADO and .NET as a whole.
Learning ASP is certainly not good for your career, its utterly
pointless....learning .NET is good for your career but its also
detrimental as it ties you into Windows which is in some eyes is
bad...(not me as I will always be on Windows as far as my Company is
concerned)
To be honest learning a decent amount of SQL is better at the moment ,
especially for a web based app as everyone knows how to SELECT, UPDATE
etc but the real SQL RDBMS knowledge comes in some indepth coding of SQL
and the quirks of SQL itself....
Anyone can learn syntax but not all can code well.
Nathan Strutz wrote:
>Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote:
>
> >>> PHP also works with SQL Server, even with stored procedures etc.
> >>So does CF, but it's still not ADO.NET.
>
>
>>Back this up with your reasoning....also if you wouldn't run Windows how are you going to run .NET....? curious...
>>
>>
>
>My reasoning is this:
>
>Everyone (nearly) can connect to SQL Server with their web-based
>programming language. However, how good is the support?
>
>We had a perl guy here, who, since there are no perl MS Sql drivers,
>used the SyBase driver, similar, but dated. His app ended up having a
>lot of problems.
>
>See, SQL Server is MS's baby, which they love and care for with native
>ADO drivers. Microsoft wants everyone to use their platform, so the
>ADO.NET drivers have to be better than any perl, JDBC or PHP drivers.
>
>CF uses drivers from DataDirect. A great company, but they're not
>Microsoft. The original source came from early versions of the MS SQL
>JDBC driver, which Microsoft doesn't like, though at the time of the
>first JDBC release, I think MS saw Java as a ncessary evil, but not any
>more.
>
>
>Anyways, WOT for the jobs-talk list. All in all, learning ASP is good
>for your career. Learning _ANY_ other language is good, not just for
>your marketability, but for your better understanding of CF and
>programming languages in general.
>
>-nathan strutz
>
>
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