From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T00:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:01:11 +0900, Dick Davies
<rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote:
> * Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> [1142 14:42]:
> > In practice, with a putative Oracle connector to AR, AR simply won't
> > work, because Oracle's metadata tables always return the data in
> > uppercase -- unless the table name is quoted.
> >
> > MySQL is a bad model -- it doesn't actually do much of anything right.\
> And you just found this out?
> Have you been living in a cave for the last 5 years? :)

No, I've known it for a long time. I just didn't realise until the
last couple of days that ActiveRecord embeds MySQL semantics into its
otherwise nice data modeling techniques.

-austin
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               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca