Hello Justin, Monday, February 23, 2004, 4:11:40 PM, you wrote: JP> 3) A unified architecture for mysql and Oracle. You don't have to JP> remember different functions for use with different databases. That abstraction only abstracts the functions to connect to, select and query the database, surely? Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL all use slightly different SQL syntax - so if the query you pass in has to be unique depending on the database in hand - you're already having to remember a stack of system specific SQL and will have to code your application to take into consideration all of those different syntax. What I'm trying to say is that abstracting the connection to the database is the easy part, writing an application that will support them all is another matter. -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
