Why is it "unholy" for the military to better train its soldiers, to enhance their survival rate and effectiveness? If anything, our country does not do enough to protect, train and support our soldiers. This is especially true for the disabled vets who are coming back from Iraq without limbs. Regardless of the cause we should always support the men and women who are just doing their jobs.
His entire premise is based on the notion that soldiers are evil, which they are not. They exist to protect our country and to implement orders from superior officers. When it comes to conflict or war, the issue then becomes how the soldiers are *used*. Then his argument becomes valid. And there is only one commander in chief (except for the Clintons -- keep an eye on that 22nd amendment)...
I am have been an Oracle DBA/Developer for more than 10 years. I also got into Java and more hardcore OO programming around 1996ish.
In my opinion, from a design and implementation standpoint, the use of stored procedures is extremeley useful to provide an abstraction layer for data access. This is valuable because the stored proc can handle the renormalization of tabular data to best fit whatever object model is used in the application. Simplifies the application and protects it from necessary database changes (normalization/denormalization) in terms of how the object is implemented into tables.
The great benefit of this is that it lets dbas and other database developers implement the data model independently of the application! This forces the relational data model design to resources that can program it most efficiently.
Obviously there will be a small number of cases where this is not a viable approach to follow, but in general, it is a huge time saver, risk reducer, and productivity enhancer.
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Why is it "unholy" for the military to better train its soldiers, to enhance their survival rate and effectiveness? If anything, our country does not do enough to protect, train and support our soldiers. This is especially true for the disabled vets who are coming back from Iraq without limbs. Regardless of the cause we should always support the men and women who are just doing their jobs. His entire premise is based on the notion that soldiers are evil, which they are not. They exist to protect our country and to implement orders from superior officers. When it comes to conflict or war, the issue then becomes how the soldiers are *used*. Then his argument becomes valid. And there is only one commander in chief (except for the Clintons -- keep an eye on that 22nd amendment)...
I am have been an Oracle DBA/Developer for more than 10 years. I also got into Java and more hardcore OO programming around 1996ish. In my opinion, from a design and implementation standpoint, the use of stored procedures is extremeley useful to provide an abstraction layer for data access. This is valuable because the stored proc can handle the renormalization of tabular data to best fit whatever object model is used in the application. Simplifies the application and protects it from necessary database changes (normalization/denormalization) in terms of how the object is implemented into tables. The great benefit of this is that it lets dbas and other database developers implement the data model independently of the application! This forces the relational data model design to resources that can program it most efficiently. Obviously there will be a small number of cases where this is not a viable approach to follow, but in general, it is a huge time saver, risk reducer, and productivity enhancer.