On 2007-12-20, at 00:37, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
It isn't the syntax that makes SQL hateful.
I hope you mean "it isn't JUST the syntax".
It's that data is partitioned
into columns in tables (read: fields in flat files). SQL is 50s-
era syntax
for 50s-era technology (invented in the 70s, o
Robert Rothenberg skribis 2007-12-20 6:37 (+):
> But people keeping their data in relational databases because of tradition
And performance.
Please, come up with an object based database that can compete. The
world will love you.
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:14:45PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>When there's a SQL compatibility question and MySQL's involved, you can be
>sure it's MySQL that's got it wrong. They love to bolt on all sorts of
>additional language extensions.
Which is why I have in my sigfile:
TRADITIONAL:
On 19/12/07 20:01 Peter da Silva wrote:
> I think any time SQL is involved in a hate, you need to hate the people
> who designed SQL for trying to make it "user-friendly" and english-like
> instead of defining a statement syntax that clearly distinguished
> components of a statement and sticking to
Sean Conner wrote:
> And at this point, I don't know where to direct my hate of software---is
> it PHP and it's serious lack of database abstraction? It's encouragement of
> shoddily written software with no pretentions of being portable? Is it the
> SQL parsing of MySQL for making some parts o
On 2007-12-19, at 15:44, David King wrote:
{select,[random,'()','*',count],
{from,bar},
{where,{id,'=',5}}}
That kind of wrapper around SQL can be useful, but it doesn't
actually do anything about the hate that is SQL. The big problem with
the SQL select statement is that it
I'd love to access a database using code like:
(select column-list selector-expression)
(with table selector-expression)
(group column-list query grouping-expression)
(order query order-list)
(join query-list join-expression)
erlsql[0] attempts to add this type of syntax to Erlang, but does so
On 2007-12-19, at 14:23, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
You get (group ('crust ('fillings (count fillings))) (with 'menu
(select ('crust 'fillings) (and (eq cheese 'extra) (eq topping
'liver ('crust))
You just more or less defined an LDAP query. ;)
Then I guess this syntax fails the "obvi
You get (group ('crust ('fillings (count fillings))) (with 'menu
(select ('crust 'fillings) (and (eq cheese 'extra) (eq topping
'liver ('crust))
You just more or less defined an LDAP query. ;)
Darrell
I think any time SQL is involved in a hate, you need to hate the
people who designed SQL for trying to make it "user-friendly" and
english-like instead of defining a statement syntax that clearly
distinguished components of a statement and sticking to it.
None of these optional "noise" word
I'm working on an internal project and for reasons that get into business
type logic of which I'm not privy to, SugarCRM [1] seems to fit the bill
perfectly.
Well, almost perfectly. For other reasons that at the time I fully agreed
with but now am having a difficult time remembering, we deci
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