Dear all,
I agree with everything said above, the point I wanted to make is just that we should probably not look to closely to what is provided by a DBMS or anything else but more to what we *really* need to satisfy our requirements. If soemthing is missing in one or more of the underlying systems we have to find a workaround. Please note that I highlighted the word *really*!
Andreas
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 18:36, John Good wrote:
> Two comments on this comment:
>
> 1) As was pointed out before, not everyone is using a COTS DBMS.
>
> 2) I think it would be a mistake to *expect* anyone to extend their
> DBMS.
>
> - John
>
> Andreas Wicenec wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > just a little comment on this:
> >
> > At least all the major DBMS support now user defined functions (UDFs)
> > mostly written in Java, i.e. you can in fact define your own function and
> > use it afterwards in normal SQL statements. Like this you are not that
> > dependent on the provided functions anymore...
Received on 2003-12-03Z11:27:47