Are we going to state the obvious elephant in the room? Going through the comments it's obvious that many developers do not know about SQL or databases in general. Its why they are getting in their feelings. The problem isn't the SQL code, it's probably because you don't understand the underlying data structure or know SQL well enough.
Putting application logic in SQL is good practice in my opinion. Maybe not all logic, but at least a good chunk. This makes your application faster and scale well. Adding more application servers would not make it faster or scale well for that matter. Understanding the underlying database and data structure would go a long way in scaling that application.
As for testing it's possible to test SQL code. I haven't seen people do autonomous testing of SQL code, but it's possible.
Agreed. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to any technology (SQL included) is rarely the technology itself, but people's comfort factor with it.
I'm just as guilty of that myself. I know that the best applications use database access (SQL) intelligently, they use middle tier functionality intelligently, and client tier functionality intelligently. But most apps have a strong bias in just one of these areas, simply because of the biases of the developer/development team involved.
Are we going to state the obvious elephant in the room? Going through the comments it's obvious that many developers do not know about SQL or databases in general. Its why they are getting in their feelings. The problem isn't the SQL code, it's probably because you don't understand the underlying data structure or know SQL well enough.
Putting application logic in SQL is good practice in my opinion. Maybe not all logic, but at least a good chunk. This makes your application faster and scale well. Adding more application servers would not make it faster or scale well for that matter. Understanding the underlying database and data structure would go a long way in scaling that application.
As for testing it's possible to test SQL code. I haven't seen people do autonomous testing of SQL code, but it's possible.
Well articulated and I share the same view.
Agreed. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to any technology (SQL included) is rarely the technology itself, but people's comfort factor with it.
I'm just as guilty of that myself. I know that the best applications use database access (SQL) intelligently, they use middle tier functionality intelligently, and client tier functionality intelligently. But most apps have a strong bias in just one of these areas, simply because of the biases of the developer/development team involved.
Thanks for your viewpoint!