Re: Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011/7/25 Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de>:
> Am 22.07.2011 21:15, schrieb Karl Nack:
>>
>> to move as much business/transactional logic as
>> possible into the database, so that client applications become little
>> more than moving data into and out of the database using a well-defined
>> API, most commonly (but not necessarily) through the use of stored
>> procedures.
>
> Beside the points already mentioned, doing this will might cause bottle
> necks if you have complicated transactions as the DB-cluster might can not
> be scaled as good as maybe a farm of application server could be done.
>

Yes, and no - this can decrease network overhead, can decrease a data
conversion overhead. Sometimes I was surprised how much time I got
with moving to stored procedures.

Regards

Pavel

> Cheers,
> Frank
>
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