All this talk about DataBases

[Scott Kane]

From: "Lynn Fredricks" <lfredricks at proactive-intl.com>

> I strongly agree with Chipp - of course I have some interest in databases
> with Valentina. An application development environment really has to be 
> able
> to do everything, yet it cannot be good at everything. By storing data in 
> a
> database, you can leverage capabilities that offer greater protection,
> speed, implementation options and sophistication specific to the storage 
> of
> data. This has little to do with the actual development tool in 
> particular -
> xCode, Visual Studio, Revolution, or whatever.

Yes indeed.  I do this as a matter of course in Delphi, but I guess I was 
curious how far one could push the stack/card paradigm (no pun intended 
<g>).

> Isolating you data from your GUI means you have much greater control over
> how your data is interacted with - reducing the opportunity for mishap. A
> lot of corporate IT departments view this as common sense.

It makes sense for code reuse as well of course.

> Later you might want to further isolate the business logic as well in such 
> a
> way that it makes it easier to modify, improve, replace - making your
> applications much smarter and scalable. This is an area where I know folks
> like Chipp and Jerry have a lot of experience so they probably have more
> real life examples of the hows and whys.

Yes.  Absolutely.  Self healing of applications is certainly a very smart 
idea.

Scott Kane
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