[Tfug] Any SQL gurus out there?

[Claude Rubinson]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:25:39PM -0700, Robert Hunter wrote:
> There is nothing inherently wrong with storing code in a database.
> Databases are collections of structured data, that can be queried and
> updated.  If storing code in such a system makes sense, then why not?
> Obviously, the real question is what would be the purpose of doing so?

<snipping discussion of version control vs AI system>

But Jim was asking about a relational database, which is different
from a generic datastore (which, of course, includes, e.g., flat text
files, version control, etc).

To justify why one would store code within an RDBMS, one would have to
demonstrate the relational nature of the code/rules/etc and specify
the rules by which the code entity relates to other entities in the
RDBMS.  Certainly there are probably times when it's appropriate but
I'm suggesting that they're few and far between.

Claude