From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2010-11-18T03:24:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ORM's - Don't Do It!

Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #962160:
> (BTW, when you say "database" do you
> mean the engine, or actual database entities. IOW: 1000 tables per
> schema, or 1000 tables in total)
>
I'm thinking of eg a large general insurance application. There would be
hundreds of other databases across the organisation but I recall 800
Oracle tables in the main app.

> the only people who have access to all tables
> in any given database are only a select few, simply for privacy and
> security reasons.
>
You refer to people who have access to all tables as though there are
only two types of users - 800 tablers or 20 tablers. In fact there will
be all sorts of different profiles.

You seem very evangelical when it comes to ORMs but I'm sure you're
aware the impedance mismatch is a well known issue. I didn't invent it.

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