>I've always believed that there were many business data
>processing requirements that SQL just can't do well.
>For those applications processing a record at a time
>by key seems to be more efficient, and the code looks
>a lot cleaner.  I'm starting to see that some of those
>business calculations could be performed cleanly
>using SQL if the database were designed better,
>or at least designed with SQL in mind.

One size has never fitted all situations.  Good synopsis!

Buck


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