Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Sunday 21 September 2003 23:39, Roberto Alsina wrote:
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> Now, your position is that there is no such app to be written. I gave a
> few examples, Andras mentioned one. Those apps do exist.

My position is that DBs are, more frequently than not, used as the wrong 
solution to a problem, and are inherently much more complex and less reliable 
than simpler solutions. I don't disagree that apps needing a DB can be 
written, I do disagree that they are as common as you seem to think.

> Costs almost nothing. It's tiny. It's written. It's 1200 lines. How buggy
> can it be? ;-)

You tell me :-). How well tested is it ?

> Benefits: you say none. I say some.

No, I agree there are benefits. What I'm worried about are the downsides, even 
more so since you seem to be overly confident on the issue, and advocated the 
use of DBs in applications where they really didn't belong. Two sure signs of 
the "I've got a new toy I absolutely must play with"-syndrome. No offense 
meant, but you do trigger a few alarm bells here.

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