On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:29:21PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: > The job of a DB isn't just storage of your data, but also to ensure > that the data it stores is always conformant to the types and > restrictions or business rules that you tell it applies to the data, > so that the data can be trusted. > > It makes a lot of sense for a DBMS to be smart and to do a lot of the > data-centric work itself.
Yes, _I_ agree, that it's not just "job of storage". Just for storage purposes a plain file (or .dbf) can be quite enough in most cases. > However, that doesn't mean that the DBMS > has to have a large laundry-list of built-in functions, but more that > it provides the means for users to define the types and business > rules that it wants the DBMS to enforce for data, and routines for > data processing tasks. [..] > I don't see that auto-strip is a good candidate for that list ... not > enough of a case for that being generally useful, or too many cases > for why it would be a mis-feature whose use should not get the > encouragement from it being built-in. OK, I understand. It was just a proposal, anyway. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------