Changing your tables is neither a minor nor everyday activity. You must expect that changes at such a fundamental level will have cascading effects...
Exactly. DDL schema changes aren't a trivial operation - their effect should be assessed across the entire system (i.e. from the database to the client code). By using stored procedure some schema changes can be hidden from the client code.

is it conceivable that the stored procedures could tax the RAM of the database server?
RAM is generally consumed by data structures, not procedures. I think you would require truly vast numbers of them to impact memory performance.
It should also be noted that the vast majority of Sybase sites run on pretty hefty hardware, and even those that run on linux or WinNT tend to have in excess of 1GB of RAM available to the database server (which doesn't mean that memory should be wasted, of course).

Michael

In reply to Re: Re: Website Application Framework with Sybase, Apache & Perl: My Thoughts by mpeppler
in thread Website Application Framework with Sybase, Apache & Perl: My Thoughts by princepawn

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