On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: [..] > I usually hear people support stored procs by saying that they are > cross-language, but so is SOAP and HTTP. So why is everyone so hot to > code stored procedures?
Well, here're 2 reasons that come to mind: 1. You get to impose relational integrity at the DBMS level. And that gives you a cheap and robust abstraction layer: example: I write a bunch of stored PL/SQL procedures for data manipulation in an Oracle d/b. Then, I use DBI to call the procs through my mod_perl app and at the same time the other PC-based-application-developer-jokers can continue to build kludgy native Oracle clients that call the same procedures. 2. True database independence is quite utopian. So, if you are stuck with a certain d/b, then might as well leverage all the rich set of tools available. Ajit
