> From: Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Maybe that's not _always_ the right answer, but it > seems to be a good > answer 99% of the time. Sounds like your developers are > using the > database for what it was intended for, instead of just > doing single > row selects like a lot of amateurs I've come across. > In some places I agree it's totally valid, but in a lot of cases here it's just unnecessary. They have a set of really flexible pre written routines to sort datasets in the application, and I'm talking really stupid use here - like having a small list of items in an array where an array sort could be done, but instead writing it all back and reading it again. constantly.
