Comments on: There’s more to ORM than serializing data to a RDBMS http://dossy.org/2006/12/theres-more-to-orm-than-serializing-data-to-a-rdbms/ Everything that comes out of Dossy, from the strange to the banal. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dossy http://dossy.org/2006/12/theres-more-to-orm-than-serializing-data-to-a-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Dossy Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:38:14 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000385.html#comment-604 Chase: what would you say are the distinguishing features and/or reasons Microsoft's LINQ is better? At a glance, it looks like just another set manipulation API. Chase: what would you say are the distinguishing features and/or reasons Microsoft’s LINQ is better? At a glance, it looks like just another set manipulation API.

]]> By: Chase Saunders http://dossy.org/2006/12/theres-more-to-orm-than-serializing-data-to-a-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-603 Chase Saunders Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:03:58 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000385.html#comment-603 This is why Microsoft's LINQ is a winner when so many ORM's are losers that sound good in practice but don't cut the mustard when you try them in enterprise apps. This is why Microsoft’s LINQ is a winner when so many ORM’s are losers that sound good in practice but don’t cut the mustard when you try them in enterprise apps.

]]> By: Dan Pritchett http://dossy.org/2006/12/theres-more-to-orm-than-serializing-data-to-a-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Dan Pritchett Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:26:23 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000385.html#comment-602 Well stated. Rows aren't objects and vice versa! Well stated. Rows aren’t objects and vice versa!

]]> By: Peter Harkins http://dossy.org/2006/12/theres-more-to-orm-than-serializing-data-to-a-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-601 Peter Harkins Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:59:22 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000385.html#comment-601 <i>if your problem is so simple that pregenerated scaffolds and ActiveRecord is adequate, then your problem is so trivial it's non-interesting</i> That's exactly the point of ActiveRecord: the needs that most web apps have for databases is simple and uninteresting. AR lets the coder spend as little time on the problem as possible. (Also, openid login is broken on your blog.) if your problem is so simple that pregenerated scaffolds and ActiveRecord is adequate, then your problem is so trivial it’s non-interesting

That’s exactly the point of ActiveRecord: the needs that most web apps have for databases is simple and uninteresting. AR lets the coder spend as little time on the problem as possible.

(Also, openid login is broken on your blog.)

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