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Should ORMs Insulate Developers from SQL?

25
Feb
2008

This is a question which is fundamental to any ORM design. And really from a philosophical standpoint, how should ORMs deal with SQL? Isn’t the whole point of the ORM to sit between the developer and the database as an all-encompassing, object oriented layer?
A long time ago in an office far, far away, a very […]

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Are GUIDs Really the Way to Go?

7
Nov
2007

I recently read a (slightly inflammatory) posting entitled “The Gospel of the GUID”. In it, the author attempts to put forward several arguments in favor of using GUIDs for all database primary keys (as opposed to the more pedestrian sequence-generated INTEGER). I’ve heard similar arguments in the past, and I keep coming back to the […]

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Daniel Spiewak is a software developer based out of Wisconsin, USA. Over the years, he has worked with Java, Ruby, Scala, SQL, C and C++, ML, and half-a-dozen experimental languages. His current Open Source endeavor is the ActiveObjects ORM, which seeks to be a more intuitive and lightweight database access layer than existing Java solutions. He can be reached by email.
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