Re:(Some) ORM haters do get it
by mistermann on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:50PM
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> it's been my experience that most places choose between a highly OO model + ORM and a highly relational model without.
My experience has always been a highly relational model, ORM or not, and business rules enforced in app layer or DB (or a mix of the two). I've always seen them as distinctly different decisions.
Personally, in the past I was always a "rules in the app layer" guy, because of the many advantages of doing in that way, but as I get older the more difficult but guaranteed correctness of implementing in the database is becoming more appealing (especially if it's not me that has to actually write the code!!)
My experience has always been a highly relational model, ORM or not, and business rules enforced in app layer or DB (or a mix of the two). I've always seen them as distinctly different decisions.
Personally, in the past I was always a "rules in the app layer" guy, because of the many advantages of doing in that way, but as I get older the more difficult but guaranteed correctness of implementing in the database is becoming more appealing (especially if it's not me that has to actually write the code!!)