Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Sep 2005 14:48 UTC, submitted by kellym
Specialized programming languages and their supporting environments have always been tightly coupled: SQL and the database; business rules and the rules engine. It's tempting to wish for an überlanguage or one syntax to rule them all, but what really matters is a common environment. At its 2005 Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft showed that it's finally putting all of its eggs into the .Net basket.
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Member since:In this case the clients with good performing hardware will benefit and clients with old hardware will suffer alot. Is this a step forward?? Not really. 1000 sorts by a 1000 persons isn't that much in a large scale application. Databases have highly optimized code to do this. Might depend on what databases we're talking about. And also, If the client is a webserver would you rather have the webserver doing stuff like sorts, instead of serving webpages? Another problem is the huge amount of unecessary network traffic you'll get.
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2005-07-06
Huh? Moving things like sorts away from the database is actually a very good thing (unless the column has a clustered index on it). Would you rather have 1000 concurrent clients doing a large sort on a server, or 1000 concurrent users sorting a set of data locally?