Re: PHP is the scourge

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Perrin Harkins wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:13 -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>> I've never written an app for a client that started on one backend and
>> moved to another.
>
> I have.  I helped move an app from MySQL to Oracle once.  It took a lot
> of work to get rid of mysql-isms, but the DBI code itself hardly changed
> at all.  I would agree with the earlier poster that the level of
> abstraction DBI provides is really helpful when this sort of thing comes
> along.  I suspect Pear::DB is fine for this too.

I think the consistency of DB is helpful even if you never move an app 
from one DBMS to another.  Chances are you'll still end up using more than 
one in a career, and being able to connect and send queries with the same 
API is great.  What I don't think is attempting to mask _all_ the 
differences (particularly in SQL itself) between various DBMS backends.


-dave

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