[Dbix-class] How I hate (some) DBAs

[Jon Schutz]

Hi Ian,

Have you profiled your code to demonstrate that the calls to DBIC are an
insignificant component of the overall request cycle time, and as such
choosing a more "efficient" technology is a waste of time, effort and money?

I have used PL/SQL.  Dark, terrible days, those.

Regards,

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Ian wrote:
> > Hi
> > We are just coming to the end of our development with a (very) tight
> > timescale and pretty much on-time due to the use of DBIC and Catalyst.
> >
> > Development was on MySQL but someone has now decided we have to run on
> > Oracle. OK, no problem we thought, it should migrate over with very few
> > issues since we are using DBIC.
> >
> > However, the Oracle DBA has thrown his teddy out of the pram and refuses
> > to accept that DBIC can generate efficient code, or code that he can
> > inspect, and insists that we use an 'API' that he will show us how to
> > create to use pl/sql statements. From what I have seen of it, it will
> > take me back about 10 years to where I was trying to generate my own DB
> > abstraction layer before I learned about CDBI and DBIC. Argghh.
> >
> > I have pointed out to the project manager that this will break
> > everything we have written so far. We will have to manually write all
> > the code to do the heavy lifting and shifting that DBIC does for us so
> > easily. It is likely to take us at least twice as long as it has already
> > taken us to redevelop the whole application to write the new database
> > abstraction layer and modify our application to use it.
> >
> > Yes I can output the generated SQL from DBIC, but this does not satisfy
> > our DBA.
> >
> > How do other developers cope with these people? Are there any DBAs on
> > here that embrace DBIC that can give me any advice?
> >
> > Regards
> > Ian
> >