RE: [OT] Inspired by closing comments from the UBB thread. (fwd)

2001-08-01 Thread Nick Tonkin
Since you asked, my opinion is that what you describe would not be useful. Primarily for the reason pointed out already by a number of people -- lack of flexibility. Most, if not all, database servers accept highly customizable performance params to a query, and most even moderately evolved

Re: [OT] Inspired by closing comments from the UBB thread. (fwd)

2001-08-01 Thread Daniel
Nicely put Nick. There's already a Structured Query Language, And there's an easy to use abstraction called DBI up on CPAN. Feel free to use in application code thusly: my $statement = qq~ SELECT field1, field2 FROM table WHERE id = ? ~; my $ref; my $sth =

Re: [OT] Inspired by closing comments from the UBB thread. (fwd)

2001-08-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:29:10AM -0700, Daniel wrote: Nicely put Nick. There's already a Structured Query Language, And there's an easy to use abstraction called DBI up on CPAN. Feel free to use in application code thusly: my $statement = qq~ SELECT field1, field2 FROM