Merrill Aldrich : ORM

Trick Question -- Part Quattro

merrillaldrich — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:49:00 GMT

Spoiler: TPH is an evil trap In the last installment I pleaded for the equal treatment of the database schema and object model when implementing an application with a database, on the grounds that the failure of either means the failure of the whole system....(read more)

Trick Question -- Part Trois

merrillaldrich — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:41:00 GMT

This is the third part of a series ( Part 1 , Part 2 ) thinking out loud about the decision making around data access for applications. Once you've considered how tightly bound your application code can safely be to tables, I would like to put two related...(read more)

Trick Question – Part Två

merrillaldrich — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:58:00 GMT

This post is part two of an effort to examine, in brief, the decisions entailed in designing the interface between database and application. We’re in a strange place at this moment, where both the possibilities and the liabilities of techniques like ORM...(read more)