Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/24/07 13:27

Kenneth Downs wrote:

> Exactly. The database and the code are not only interrelated, they are
> married, or perhaps they are blood brothers, they can never be separated.
> The code has to know about the structure of the tables.

Well, "the dream" is to build as little database information into the code
as possible, and have it infer as much as it can by querying the database
itself. But there's a limit to how much can be done in this area.

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