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Maybe too simpleby htoug (Deacon) |
on Sep 09, 2004 at 06:05 UTC ( [id://389552]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I feel that it is just too simple. It might work in an environment where you never have to do a join or in other ways really use the fact that you have a database system out there with a much greater potential. But maybe I am predjudiced, I work in a place where our database (yes we only have one for all our data, although we do have copies for analysis, reporting etc, and a smaller version for development and testing) has over 1500 tables and is currently at ~50GB and growing. I my experience, as soon as you grow beyond using the database as a way of just storing simple data, you will have joins in most of your queries, and so very little use for Class::DBI and related socalled simple tools.
The logical and the physical models are just too different! Your application needs data that is in a form that is suitable for its needs, the database needs the data to be normalised and easy to access for many different purposes. /me leaving soapbox and returning to lurkmode.
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