On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:39:08AM +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote: > Sidetracking a little, I've got to admit that I'm not very sure of > the impact of ORM to databases. Some OO proponents insist on not > using stored procedure etc. unless there is a compelling reason > (e.g. Martin Fowler in his book Patterns of Enterprise Application > Architecture). I've found "compelling reasons" any time my app isn't one I could simply download from freshmeat, so I suppose this is true, but only vacuously. > So actually a database like MySQL4 would suffice, as much as I hate > to say it. Not if you want to get data back out when you put it in, it isn't. Cheers, D -- David Fetter david@xxxxxxxxxx http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote!