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I think the advantage isn't so much the ability to switch, but the luxury of not having to know anything specific about the database you are interfacing with. T
by xj9 12y ago
I think the advantage isn't so much the ability to switch, but the luxury of not having to know anything specific about the database you are interfacing with. This is especially useful in heterogeneous environments (like my workplace).
- matwood 12y agoUnfortunately to do any real optimizations or something even minimally complex you have to know the underlying rdbms. For example, techniques that work well in Oracle may not work well in MSSQL. If you throw mysql in there, then you have an entire set of standard sql that simply does not work or works but with horrible performance.