This is a node that has really touched on the issues that have made me disinclined to go down the CDBI route. But i have to admit i'd really like to hear you summarize this more cogently. I did do a search on Fabian Pascal but I think an article on the subject by yourself would be a very worthy meditation.

All I can say is that every time ive looked into CDBI it seems appropriate for fairly naive DB's but for serious work it seems totally unsuitable for handling complex relationships and business logic. Your comment about object/record class/table mappings really seems to encapsulate the problems I have. Its extremely unusal for me to have any such mapping, in fact its much more common to have objects be represented as a derived amalgamation of many records from many tables.

Anyway, I really hope you meditate on this.


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demerphq

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In reply to Re^2: Class::DBI not intuitive by demerphq
in thread Class::DBI not intuitive by Jaap

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