Re: [Boost-users] SQL library with full embedded SQL-syntax

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-15 04:26:57

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.

In the 'real-world' both things are used.

Choosing C++ for a projects where databases are involved is probably 
rare and Java/C#/Python/Ruby is more likely. C++ doesn't exactly
boost productivity, so it has to offer something else to be a condidate.
And what can C++ offer? Type safety.

-Thorsten