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"I consider stored procedures and constraints vile and reckless destroyers of coherence."

Finally. Someone comes up with a technical description of how I've always felt. Thank you, dhh.

I don't totally agree with him. I draw the line at stored procedures, triggers, and views; he draws the line at, uh, any relational integrity at all. I think database constraints are good to protect against application bugs.

I wonder why he uses a relational database at all if he's really just using it as a bit bucket.

I read his post and the one he linked to. It's an interesting argument. I've found great usefulness with views and triggers. When working with multiple developers that might mess with your models, I like to have overall control by being the database guy. That is where I am coming from.

Pointing to the fact that a lot of apps being built on Rails/Django/etc. (but not all of them) make sense with something like a doc-oriented DB.

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