Re: [boost] SQL library with full embedded SQL-syntax

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-15 08:46:40

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jeff Garland wrote:
> 
>> Well, I'll be brutally honest -- I don't think I would go that 
>> direction.  We didn't pick a database project last year because a 
>> majority of the mentors agreed that the 'dsl-based' approach was more of 
>> a toy than reality.  The main reason for this is that in 'real-world' 
>> applications queries are often dynamic and must be built at run-time.  
> 
> The other reason is that in 'real-world' you might want to call stored 
> procedures instead of manually glued pieces of ad-hoc SQL queries, in 
> which case the support in the area of query composition is probably not 
> very useful anyway.

True, but I wouldn't recommend it since it's inherently non-portable.

Jeff