[DB-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] database APIs

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Kevin Jacobs wrote:

> > the question is inspired by the amount of work that is
> > needed to create a useable suite of database queries in
> > the shortest period of time - something that is important
> > when both developing databases and also when doing lots
> > of database applications one after the other.
> 
> I've found that rapid initial development is far less important than ease of
> validation, maintenance, and portability.  My belief is based on writing and
> maintaining Python applications that interface to, at times >8 heterogeneous
> database backends, each with many hundreds of tables and distinct OTP and
> OLAP queries.

 whoa.  not small, then.

 to be honest the most number of tables i've had to deal with is
 25 to 30, across at most two separate databases on different servers.

 ... but i'm _still_ fed up with how much code has to be written
 by hand!

 l.