Re: A thought about other open source projects

On Sunday 20 June 2010 12.52:22 Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I don't believe in "database agnostic code".

Using a db abstraction may be the right way to write "database agnostic 
code".

I have quite a good impression of SQLAlchemy, for example: it is quite 
generic, and it is still possible to write direct SQL for those few queries 
where I know that I can create better queries than SQLAlchemy would.

YMMV, of course.  When performance is an issue, optimized code for a certain 
DB backend will probably beat abstractions like this every time.  But if 
you're just writing a small-ish application, the option to support other db 
with minimal effort is quite nice.

cheers
-- vbi


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