On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:04:49 -0800, Justin Palmer <justin.php.gen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What if you were to build an application around the MySQL database. You > have just finished the project and you are taking it to your boss. You > get there and then your boss says, "you know what I would rather use > Oracle as our database". With this situation you have, potentially, > wasted many hours writing the MySQL version. What are you going to do > now, say something like, "Sorry boss, my application I designed is not > flexible enough for me to switch db's at this time.", as your promotion > for completing the project goes down the drain. If your boss switches databases at the end of the project then he's an idiot and it should be his problem, not yours. There are a number of database abstration layers out there btw :) We use ADOdb. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
