Re: [PHP] Re: PEAR or not PEAR

2002-09-26 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 09/26/2002 02:11 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > No DB abstraction layer, including MetaBase offers true database > abstraction. No layer will make stored procedures portable. No layer Not that you know, of course. > will make your fancy Oracle DECODE() query portable. No layer will >

Re: [PHP] Re: PEAR or not PEAR

2002-09-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
No DB abstraction layer, including MetaBase offers true database abstraction. No layer will make stored procedures portable. No layer will make your fancy Oracle DECODE() query portable. No layer will magically make your MS-SQL triggers work anywhere else. For any moderately complex database w

[PHP] Re: PEAR or not PEAR

2002-09-25 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 09/24/2002 11:15 AM, Joshua E Minnie wrote: > I was reading an article at PHPBuilder.com (not very recent, 01/15/2001) > about PEAR DB, and was wondering if anyone had any experience using PEAR > rather than the functions dedicated specifically to each type of DB (i.e. > mysql_, mssql_,