Re:SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution
by wvenable on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:28AM
(#697120)
While a SQL database isn't always the right tool for the job, it most definitely is the best default answer most of the time. We keep seeing these articles over and over and they keep missing the point.
This is what the author says about an e-commerce order: "But in practice, and the app almost always wants to retrieve the entire record all at one, and write the entire record all at once."
Right, because no business ever wants a total of their orders in the month?!? Or a business never wants to know who their best customers are? This is the worst example ever and proves that this "in practice" thought is entirely backwards.
This is what the author says about an e-commerce order: "But in practice, and the app almost always wants to retrieve the entire record all at one, and write the entire record all at once."
Right, because no business ever wants a total of their orders in the month?!? Or a business never wants to know who their best customers are? This is the worst example ever and proves that this "in practice" thought is entirely backwards.