[Tfug] Still another RDBMS

[Claude Rubinson]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:42:13AM -0700, Choprboy wrote:
> I would personally ask the question, why do you need the client app
> to do the DB query directly? That requires the client to have a full
> understanding of the DB schema. Why not instead have a server-side
> interface that returns the subset of results as requested?
> PHP/Perl/etc. all have tools built-in to walk and manipulate DB
> results returned.

This is what I was also going to suggest.  What you're essentially
talking about is the logic behind dumb terminals/AJAX/etc: offload the
data intensive processing to the server, so as to keep a lightweight
client.

Claude