[dundee] Database front end - any ideas?

Rick Moynihan rick.moynihan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 18:26:05 GMT 2008


On 08/02/2008, Gary Short <gary at garyshort.org> wrote:
> Simon Wells wrote:
> > Although if the idea of the project is for them to learn something about
> > databases then using a tool that does the heavy lifting might be
> > counterproductive. Bearing in mind that the tools that we would actually
> > choose for real world development are often quite different to the ones
> > selected for pedagogical use in a teaching and learning situation.
> >
> > Simon
>
> True, but once you've done the CRUD stuff once, there's little point in
> having to redo it over and over as your db schema changes as the project
> moves forwards, best leave that to the framework and concentrate on the
> parts of the sql that make the project what it is.

The danger here is that depending on your domain and application there
maybe no SQL to write.... e.g. a simple blog in rails is likely not to
need much (if any) SQL.

R.



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