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What's the holdup?

By Jennifer deJong

November 18, 2008 —

Sources interviewed by SD Times offered five reasons why most developers don’t program the database from their primary programming language:

• New technologies have emerged, such as Microsoft LINQ and frameworks based on the Java Persistence API. Developers have opted to use those database access approaches rather than program the database from C# or Java.

• Though modern languages manage database-intensive tasks more efficiently than SQL, developers prefer to move the data to the middle tier when possible.

• SQL continues to evolve, and there is no shortage of SQL programmers.

• Enterprise database installations are managed by database administrators who don’t want developers dropping compiled code in the database.

• Manipulating the database from the developer’s programming language represents a shift in mindset, and such shifts are always slow to occur.

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SQL still serves When it came to database programming, SQL was supposed to give way to other languages. But new technologies, such as LINQ, JPA, and improvements to SQL itself have allowed it to persist as the language of choice in this field.

Why program Microsoft SQL Server from .NET? Microsoft's José Blankley gives three situations in which programming the database from .NET is a sound option. He says that .NET is good for building core database constructs, for instance.

Microsoft ships SQL Server 2008 Nearly six months after its gala launch event, SQL Server 2008 is now in the hands of customers. Its arrival formalizes the ADO.NET data entity framework and the server also includes new facilitates for data warehousing.

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